Insect Tc-six4 marks a unit with similarity to vertebrate placodes

Developmental Biology

Volumn 350, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 208-216

  Posnien, Nico ^a,b   Koniszewski, Nikolaus ^a   Bucher, Gregor ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VETERINARY MEDICINE   (Austria)

Author keywords

Cranial placodes; Eya; Insect head; Neuroendocrine; Sine oculis; Six1; Six4; Tribolium

Indexed keywords

MEMBRANE PROTEIN; PROTEIN TC SIX4; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; BLASTODERM; CONTROLLED STUDY; ECTODERM; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; EVOLUTION; GENE AMPLIFICATION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE SEQUENCE; MORPHOLOGY; NEUROENDOCRINE SYSTEM; NONHUMAN; PLACODE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN FUNCTION; TRIBOLIUM;

ANIMALIA; BILATERIA; CHORDATA; COLEOPTERA; HEXAPODA; TRIBOLIUM (BEETLE); TRIBOLIUM CASTANEUM; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 78651249153     PISSN: 00121606     EISSN: 1095564X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ydbio.2010.10.024     Document Type: Article

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