hunchback Functions as a Segmentation Gene in the Spider Achaearanea tepidariorum

Current Biology

Volumn 19, Issue 16, 2009, Pages 1333-1340

  Schwager, Evelyn E ^a   Pechmann, Matthias ^a   Feitosa, Natàlia M ^a   McGregor, Alistair P ^a   Damen, Wim G M ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLOGNE   (Germany)

^b FRIEDRICH SCHILLER UNIVERSITY JENA   (Germany)

Author keywords

DEVBIO; EVOL_ECOL

Indexed keywords

DNA BINDING PROTEIN; MEMBRANE PROTEIN; NOTCH RECEPTOR; PROTEIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; WNT PROTEIN;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; HOMEOBOX; MESODERM; MOLECULAR GENETICS; MORPHOGENESIS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYSIOLOGY; PRENATAL DEVELOPMENT; PROTEIN MOTIF; RNA INTERFERENCE; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; SPIDER; VERTEBRATE;

AMINO ACID MOTIFS; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; BODY PATTERNING; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; GENES, HOMEOBOX; MEMBRANE PROTEINS; MESODERM; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; RECEPTORS, NOTCH; RNA INTERFERENCE; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; SPIDERS; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; VERTEBRATES; WNT PROTEINS;

ACHAEARANEA TEPIDARIORUM; ARANEAE; ARTHROPODA; HEXAPODA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 68849108348     PISSN: 09609822     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2009.06.061     Document Type: Article

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