Knockdown of Parhyale Ultrabithorax recapitulates evolutionary changes in crustacean appendage morphology

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 106, Issue 33, 2009, Pages 13892-13896

  Liubicich, Danielle M ^a   Serano, Julia M ^b   Pavlopoulos, Anastasios ^c   Kontarakis, Zacharias ^d   Protas, Meredith E ^b   Kwan, Elaine ^b   Chatterjee, Sandip ^b,e   Tran, Khoa D ^b,f   Averof, Michalis ^d   Patel, Nipam H ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b University of California Berkeley   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY MUSEUM OF ZOOLOGY   (United Kingdom)

^d INSTITUTE OF MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND BIOTECHNOLOGY   (Greece)

^e UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF OREGON   (United States)

Author keywords

Appendages; Arthropods; Development; Hox

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CRUSTACEA; GENE; GENE EXPRESSION; LIMB; MAXILLIPED; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MORPHOLOGICAL TRAIT; NONHUMAN; PARHYALE HAWAIENSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; ULTRABITHORAX GENE;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CLONING, MOLECULAR; CRUSTACEA; EVOLUTION; EXTREMITIES; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENES, HOMEOBOX; GENETIC TECHNIQUES; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEINS; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, SCANNING; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; RNA, SMALL INTERFERING;

ANIMALIA; ARTHROPODA; CRUSTACEA; MUS; PARHYALE;

EID: 69549122200     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0903105106     Document Type: Article

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