Heads and tails: Evolution of antero-posterior patterning in insects

Biochimica et Biophysica Acta - Gene Regulatory Mechanisms

Volumn 1789, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 333-342

  Rosenberg, Miriam I ^a   Lynch, Jeremy A ^b   Desplan, Claude ^a  

^a NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COLOGNE   (Germany)

Author keywords

Axis formation; Development; Drosophila; Evolution; Nasonia; Segmentation gene; Tribolium

Indexed keywords

CONTROLLED STUDY; DROSOPHILA; EMBRYO; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; EVOLUTION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; INSECT DEVELOPMENT; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; TRIBOLIUM;

ANIMALS; BODY PATTERNING; DROSOPHILA; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR;

HEXAPODA; NASONIA;

EID: 64249148393     PISSN: 18749399     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bbagrm.2008.09.007     Document Type: Review

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