Flexibly deployed Pax genes in eye development at the early evolution of animals demonstrated by studies on a hydrozoan jellyfish

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

Volumn 107, Issue 32, 2010, Pages 14263-14268

  Suga, Hiroshi ^a,c   Tschopp, Patrick ^a,d   Graziussi, Daria F ^a,e   Stierwald, Michael ^b,f   Schmid, Volker ^b   Gehring, Walter J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BASEL   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BASEL   (Switzerland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA   (Spain)

^d UNIVERSITY OF GENEVA   (Switzerland)

^e UNIVERSITY OF COLOGNE   (Germany)

^f NOVARTIS PHARMA AG   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Biodiversity; Cladonema radiatum; Cnidaria; Evo devo; Gene duplication

Indexed keywords

OPSIN; PAIRED BOX TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR PAX A; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR PAX B; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR PAX E; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR PAX6; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; EYE PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; CLADONEMA RADIATUM; DROSOPHILA; EVOLUTION; EYE DEVELOPMENT; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENITAL SYSTEM; JELLYFISH; NONHUMAN; OOCYTE; PHYLOGENY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DOMAIN; SPONGE (PORIFERA); STERNUM; ANIMAL; EYE; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; HYDROZOA; MOLECULAR GENETICS; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION;

ANIMALS; EVOLUTION; EYE; EYE PROTEINS; HYDROZOA; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PAIRED BOX TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; PHYLOGENY; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION;

ANIMALIA; BILATERIA; CLADONEMA; CLADONEMA RADIATUM; CNIDARIA; CUBOZOA; SCYPHOZOA; TRIPEDALIA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 77956272661     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1008389107     Document Type: Article

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