Expression and function of a limb-patterning gene Distal-less in the soldier-specific morphogenesis in the nasute termite Nasutitermes takasagoensis

Evolution and Development

Volumn 14, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 286-295

  Toga, Kouhei ^a   Hojo, Masaru ^b   Miura, Toru ^c   Maekawa, Kiyoto ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOYAMA   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF THE RYUKYUS   (Japan)

^c HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DISTAL LESS PROTEIN, INSECT; DISTAL-LESS PROTEIN, INSECT; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEIN; SMALL INTERFERING RNA; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

ADAPTATION; CYTOGENETICS; DEFENSE BEHAVIOR; EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY; GENE EXPRESSION; IMMUNOASSAY; MOLT; MORPHOGENESIS; MORPHOLOGY; TERMITE;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CELL PROLIFERATION; EPITHELIUM; EVOLUTION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; HEAD; HISTOLOGY; HOMEOBOX; ISOPTERA; METABOLISM; MOLTING; MORPHOGENESIS;

ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; CELL PROLIFERATION; EPITHELIUM; GENE EXPRESSION; GENES, HOMEOBOX; HEAD; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEINS; ISOPTERA; MOLTING; MORPHOGENESIS; RNA, SMALL INTERFERING; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

ISOPTERA; NASUS; NASUTITERMES TAKASAGOENSIS; NASUTITERMITINAE; TERMITIDAE;

EID: 84864016577     PISSN: 1520541X     EISSN: 1525142X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1525-142X.2012.00545.x     Document Type: Article

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