Enforcing biphasic eye development in a directly developing insect by transient knockdown of single eye selector genes

Journal of Experimental Zoology Part B: Molecular and Developmental Evolution

Volumn 314 B, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 104-114

  Dong, Ying ^a,b   Friedrich, Markus ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b WAYNE STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EYE PROTEIN; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEIN; RNA INDUCED SILENCING COMPLEX; SMALL INTERFERING RNA;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; COMPOUND EYE; EYE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE SILENCING; GENETICS; GRASSHOPPER; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; INSECT; METABOLISM; NYMPH; PHYSIOLOGY;

ANIMALS; COMPOUND EYE, ARTHROPOD; EYE; EYE PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; GENE KNOCKDOWN TECHNIQUES; GENE SILENCING; GRASSHOPPERS; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEINS; INSECTS; NYMPH; RNA, SMALL INTERFERING; RNA-INDUCED SILENCING COMPLEX;

HEXAPODA; SCHISTOCERCA AMERICANA;

EID: 76749164939     PISSN: 15525007     EISSN: 15525015     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/jez.b.21313     Document Type: Article

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