Divergent role of the Hox gene Antennapedia in spiders is responsible for the convergent evolution of abdominal limb repression

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 109, Issue 13, 2012, Pages 4921-4926

  Khadjeha, Sara ^a   Turetzeka, Natascha ^a   Pechmanna, Matthias ^a   Schwagerb, Evelyn E ^b   Wimmera, Ernst A ^a   Damenc, Wim G M ^c   Prpic, Nikola Michael ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

^b HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c FRIEDRICH SCHILLER UNIVERSITY JENA   (Germany)

Author keywords

Animal bauplan; Chelicerata; Homeosis; Homeotic genes; Tagmosis

Indexed keywords

ANTENNAPEDIA PROTEIN;

ARTHROPOD; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CONVERGENT EVOLUTION; DOWN REGULATION; DROSOPHILA; GENE EXPRESSION; HOX GENE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPIDER;

ABDOMEN; ANIMALS; ANTENNAPEDIA HOMEODOMAIN PROTEIN; ARTHROPOD ANTENNAE; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; EMBRYO, NONMAMMALIAN; EXTREMITIES; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; INSECT PROTEINS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; REPRESSOR PROTEINS; RNA INTERFERENCE; SPIDERS;

ACHAEARANEA TEPIDARIORUM; ANIMALIA; ARANEAE; ARTHROPODA; CHELICERATA; HEXAPODA;

EID: 84859475750     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1116421109     Document Type: Article

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