Conservation and variation in hox genes: How insect models pioneered the evo-devo field

Annual Review of Entomology

Volumn 58, Issue , 2013, Pages 161-179

  Heffer, Alison ^a   Pick, Leslie ^a  

^a Bldg 142   (United States)

Author keywords

evo devo; Hox; morphological evolution; segmentation

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; DROSOPHILA; GENE; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; HISTOLOGY; HOMEOBOX; INSECT; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MORPHOGENESIS;

ANIMALS; BODY PATTERNING; DROSOPHILA; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENES, HOMEOBOX; GENES, INSECT; INSECTS;

EID: 84873827145     PISSN: 00664170     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev-ento-120811-153601     Document Type: Article

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