The animal body plan, the prototypic body segment, and eye evolution

Evolution and Development

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 34-46

  Gehring, Walter J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BASEL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DROSOPHILA PROTEIN; EYE PROTEIN; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEIN; MESSENGER RNA; PAIRED BOX TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; REPRESSOR PROTEIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR PAX6;

AMINO ACID; BIOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENT; CYTOPLASM; DIVERGENCE; EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY; EYE; FLY; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC ANALYSIS; MOLECULAR ANALYSIS; MORPHOGENESIS;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; COMPOUND EYE; DROSOPHILA; EYE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; HISTOLOGY; HOMEOBOX; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MORPHOGENESIS; PHYLOGENY; PRENATAL DEVELOPMENT;

ANIMALS; BODY PATTERNING; COMPOUND EYE, ARTHROPOD; DROSOPHILA; DROSOPHILA PROTEINS; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; EYE; EYE PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; GENES, HOMEOBOX; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEINS; PAIRED BOX TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; PHYLOGENY; REPRESSOR PROTEINS; RNA, MESSENGER, STORED;

ANIMALIA; ARTHROPODA; BILATERIA; METAZOA;

EID: 84864068990     PISSN: 1520541X     EISSN: 1525142X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1525-142X.2011.00528.x     Document Type: Article

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