The morphological and molecular processes of onychophoran brain development show unique features that are neither comparable to insects nor to chelicerates

Arthropod Structure and Development

Volumn 39, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 478-490

  Eriksson, Bo Joakim ^a   Stollewerk, Angelika ^a  

^a QUEEN MARY UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

ASH; Brain centres; Delta; Morphology; Neurogenic genes; Notch; Proneural genes

Indexed keywords

ARTHROPOD; ARTICLE; BRAIN DEVELOPMENT; CHELICERATE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE ISOLATION; GENE SEQUENCE; INSECT; MORPHOLOGY; NERVOUS SYSTEM DEVELOPMENT; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; ONYCHOPHORAN;

ACHAETE-SCUTE COMPLEX GENOME REGION; ANIMALS; BRAIN; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; INVERTEBRATES; MEMBRANE PROTEINS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MORPHOGENESIS; NEUROGENESIS; PHYLOGENY; RECEPTORS, NOTCH;

ARTHROPODA; CHELICERATA; EUPERIPATOIDES; HEXAPODA; ONYCHOPHORA;

EID: 78649710609     PISSN: 14678039     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.asd.2010.07.005     Document Type: Article

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