The "Eyes absent" (eya) Gene in the Eye-Bearing Hydrozoan Jellyfish Cladonema radiatum: Conservation of the Retinal Determination Network

Journal of Experimental Zoology Part B: Molecular and Developmental Evolution

Volumn 318, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 257-267

  Graziussi, Daria Federica ^a,b   Suga, Hiroshi ^a,c   Schmid, Volker ^a   Gehring, Walter Jakob ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BASEL   (Switzerland)

^b SAN RAFFAELE HOSPITAL   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EYE PROTEIN; PRIMER DNA;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CYTOLOGY; DNA SEQUENCE; GENE REGULATORY NETWORK; GENETICS; HISTOLOGY; HYDROZOA; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR CLONING; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHOTORECEPTOR CELL; PROTEIN TERTIARY STRUCTURE; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CLONING, MOLECULAR; DNA PRIMERS; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; EYE PROTEINS; GENE REGULATORY NETWORKS; HYDROZOA; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHOTORECEPTOR CELLS, INVERTEBRATE; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; REAL-TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

BILATERIA; CLADONEMA; CLADONEMA RADIATUM; CNIDARIA; EUKARYOTA; EUMETAZOA; METAZOA; SCYPHOZOA;

EID: 84864059852     PISSN: 15525007     EISSN: 15525015     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/jez.b.22442     Document Type: Article

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