Embryonic development of the insect central complex: Insights from lineages in the grasshopper and Drosophila

Arthropod Structure and Development

Volumn 40, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 334-348

  Boyan, George ^a   Williams, Leslie ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Brain; Central complex; Embryo; Insect; Lineages

Indexed keywords

BRAIN SIZE; CELL COMMUNICATION; CELL LINEAGE; CELL PROLIFERATION; DROSOPHILA; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; GAP JUNCTION; GRASSHOPPER; INSECT DEVELOPMENT; INTERMEDIATE NEURAL PROGENITOR; NERVE FIBER; NEURAL STEM CELL; NEUROANATOMY; NEUROBLAST; NONHUMAN; REVIEW; SEROTONINERGIC NERVE CELL;

ANIMALS; DROSOPHILA; EMBRYO, NONMAMMALIAN; GRASSHOPPERS;

HEXAPODA; MAMMALIA;

EID: 79958781201     PISSN: 14678039     EISSN: 18735495     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.asd.2011.02.005     Document Type: Review

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