Animal egg as evolutionary innovation: A solution to the "embryonic hourglass" puzzle

Journal of Experimental Zoology Part B: Molecular and Developmental Evolution

Volumn 316 B, Issue 7, 2011, Pages 467-483

  Newman, Stuart A ^a  

^a NEW YORK MEDICAL COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; EVOLUTION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MORPHOGENESIS; OOCYTE; PHYSIOLOGY;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; BODY PATTERNING; EMBRYONIC DEVELOPMENT; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; OVUM;

ANIMALIA; ASCIDIACEA; AVES; MAMMALIA; METAZOA;

EID: 80054920222     PISSN: 15525007     EISSN: 15525015     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/jez.b.21417     Document Type: Article

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