Inferring the ancestral function of the posterior Hox gene within the bilateria: Controlling the maintenance of reproductive structures, the musculature and the nervous system in the acoel flatworm Isodiametra pulchra

Evolution and Development

Volumn 12, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 258-266

  Moreno, Eduardo ^a   De Mulder, Katrien ^b,c   Salvenmoser, Willi ^b   Ladurner, Peter ^b   Martínez, Pedro ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF INNSBRUCK   (Austria)

^c GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PRIMER DNA;

ANATOMY; ANCESTRY; DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY; FLATWORM; FUNCTIONAL MORPHOLOGY; GENE; GENETIC ANALYSIS; MOLECULAR ANALYSIS; NERVOUS SYSTEM; PHYLOGENY; TAXONOMY;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; HISTOLOGY; HOMEOBOX; HOMEOSTASIS; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; NERVOUS SYSTEM; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYSIOLOGY; PLATYHELMINTH; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; REPRODUCTION; RNA INTERFERENCE; ANATOMY AND HISTOLOGY;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; DNA PRIMERS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENES, HOMEOBOX; HOMEOSTASIS; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; NERVOUS SYSTEM; PLATYHELMINTHS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; REPRODUCTION; RNA INTERFERENCE;

ANIMALIA; BILATERIA; PLATYHELMINTHES;

EID: 77954018373     PISSN: 1520541X     EISSN: 1525142X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1525-142X.2010.00411.x     Document Type: Article

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