Gene expression patterns in an onychophoran reveal that regionalization predates limb segmentation in pan-arthropods

Evolution and Development

Volumn 12, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 363-372

  Janssen, Ralf ^a   Eriksson, Bo Joakim ^b,d   Budd, Graham E ^a   Akam, Michael ^b   Prpic, Nikola Michael ^c  

^a UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b UNIVERSITY MUSEUM OF ZOOLOGY   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

^d QUEEN MARY UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FLY; GENE EXPRESSION; LIMB; PHYLOGENY; SEGMENTATION; SPECIALIZATION; TAXONOMY;

ANIMAL; ANIMAL EMBRYO; ARTHROPOD; ARTICLE; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; HISTOLOGY; LIMB; METABOLISM; MORPHOGENESIS; PHYLOGENY; ANATOMY AND HISTOLOGY;

ANIMALS; ARTHROPODS; BODY PATTERNING; EMBRYO, NONMAMMALIAN; EMBRYONIC DEVELOPMENT; EXTREMITIES; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; PHYLOGENY;

ARTHROPODA; CHELICERATA; CRUSTACEA; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; EUPERIPATOIDES; HEXAPODA; MYRIAPODA; ONYCHOPHORA;

EID: 77955136920     PISSN: 1520541X     EISSN: 1525142X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1525-142X.2010.00423.x     Document Type: Article

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