Probing the Drosophila retinal determination gene network in Tribolium (II): The Pax6 genes eyeless and twin of eyeless

Developmental Biology

Volumn 333, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 215-227

  Yang, Xiaoyun ^a   Weber, Markus ^b   ZarinKamar, Nazanin ^a   Posnien, Nico ^c,d   Friedrich, Frank ^e   Wigand, Barbara ^b   Beutel, Rolf ^e   Damen, Wim G M ^f   Bucher, Gregor ^c,d   Klingler, Martin ^b   Friedrich, Markus ^a,g  

^a WAYNE STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN NUREMBERG   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

^d DFG Research Center for the Molecular Physiology of the Brain CMPB   (Germany)

^e FRIEDRICH SCHILLER UNIVERSITY JENA   (Germany)

^f UNIVERSITY OF COLOGNE   (Germany)

^g WAYNE STATE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Dachshund; Drosophila; Evolution of development; Eye development; Eyeless; Redundancy; Retinal determination gene network; Tribolium; Twin of eyeless

Indexed keywords

TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR DAC; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR EY; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR PAX6; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR TOY; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DROSOPHILA; EYE DEVELOPMENT; GENE FUNCTION; GENE REGULATORY NETWORK; GENETIC REGULATION; LARVAL DEVELOPMENT; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIMORDIUM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETINA DEVELOPMENT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; TISSUE SPECIFICITY; TRIBOLIUM; TRIBOLIUM CASTANEUM;

ANIMALIA; TRIBOLIUM CASTANEUM;

EID: 68349148326     PISSN: 00121606     EISSN: 1095564X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ydbio.2009.06.013     Document Type: Article

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