The Bilaterian Head Patterning Gene six3/6 Controls Aboral Domain Development in a Cnidarian

PLoS Biology

Volumn 11, Issue 2, 2013, Pages

  Sinigaglia, Chiara ^a   Busengdal, Henriette ^a   Leclère, Lucas ^a   Technau, Ulrich ^b   Rentzsch, Fabian ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN   (Norway)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FIBROBLAST GROWTH FACTOR;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; AUTOREGULATION; BILATERIA; CELL SPECIFICITY; CNIDARIA; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEVELOPMENTAL GENE; DOWN REGULATION; EMBRYO; EMBRYO PATTERN FORMATION; EVOLUTIONARY DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY; FEEDBACK SYSTEM; FOXQ2 GENE; GASTRULA; GENE EXPRESSION; HEAD; IRX GENE; MORPHOGENESIS; NEMATOSTELLA VECTENSIS; NERVOUS SYSTEM DEVELOPMENT; NONHUMAN; ORGANOGENESIS; ORTHOLOGY; PLANULA; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SIX 3 6 GENE;

ANIMALS; BODY PATTERNING; CNIDARIA; HEAD; SEA ANEMONES;

EID: 84874749497     PISSN: 15449173     EISSN: 15457885     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pbio.1001488     Document Type: Article

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