Candidate gene screen in the red flour beetle tribolium reveals six3 as ancient regulator of anterior median head and central complex development

PLoS Genetics

Volumn 7, Issue 12, 2011, Pages

  Posnien, Nico ^a,b   Koniszewski, Nikolaus Dieter Bernhard ^a   Hein, Hendrikje Jeannette ^c   Bucher, Gregor ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

^b OXFORD BROOKES UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^c MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR MOLECULAR GENETICS   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RNA; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR SIX3; EYE PROTEIN; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEIN; NERVE PROTEIN; SINE OCULIS HOMEOBOX HOMOLOG 3 PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; BRAIN DEVELOPMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMBRYO; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE FUNCTION; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC SCREENING; HOLOPROSENCEPHALY; INSECT DEVELOPMENT; NEUROECTODERM; NEUROENDOCRINE SYSTEM; NONHUMAN; REGULATOR GENE; RNA ANALYSIS; RNA INTERFERENCE; TRIBOLIUM; ANIMAL; BRAIN; DROSOPHILA; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; GENE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE SILENCING; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; HEAD; HUMAN; METABOLISM; METHODOLOGY; MORPHOGENESIS; MOUSE; MUTATION; ORGANOGENESIS; PRENATAL DEVELOPMENT; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY;

BILATERIA; HEXAPODA; TRIBOLIUM CASTANEUM; VERTEBRATA;

ANIMALS; BODY PATTERNING; BRAIN; DROSOPHILA; EMBRYONIC DEVELOPMENT; EYE PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; GENE KNOCKDOWN TECHNIQUES; GENES, INSECT; HEAD; HOLOPROSENCEPHALY; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEINS; HUMANS; MICE; MUTATION; NERVE TISSUE PROTEINS; NEURAL PLATE; ORGANOGENESIS; RNA INTERFERENCE; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; TRIBOLIUM;

EID: 84855262941     PISSN: 15537390     EISSN: 15537404     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1002416     Document Type: Article

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