Evolution of extracellular Dpp modulators in insects: The roles of tolloid and twisted-gastrulation in dorsoventral patterning of the Tribolium embryo

Developmental Biology

Volumn 345, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 80-93

  Nunes da Fonseca, Rodrigo ^a,b,c   van der Zee, Maurijn ^d   Roth, Siegfried ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLOGNE   (Germany)

^b FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF RIO DE JANEIRO   (Brazil)

^c Instituto Nacional de Ciência e Tecnologia em Entomologia Molecular INCT EM CNPq   (Brazil)

^d LEIDEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BONE MORPHOGENETIC PROTEIN; CHORDIN; DECAPENTAPLEGIC PROTEIN; INSECT PROTEIN; TOLLOID METALLOPROTEINASE; TWISTED GASTRULATION PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; EMBRYO; EMBRYO PATTERN FORMATION; INSECT DEVELOPMENT; MUTANT; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FUNCTION; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TRIBOLIUM;

COLEOPTERA; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; HEXAPODA; TRIBOLIUM (BEETLE); TRIBOLIUM CASTANEUM; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 77955509013     PISSN: 00121606     EISSN: 1095564X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ydbio.2010.05.019     Document Type: Article

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