Expression of the pair-rule gene homologs runt, Pax3/7, even-skipped-1 and even-skipped-2 during larval and juvenile development of the polychaete annelid Capitella teleta does not support a role in segmentation

EvoDevo

Volumn 3, Issue 1, 2012, Pages

  Seaver, Elaine C ^a   Yamaguchi, Emi ^a   Richards, Gemma S ^b   Meyer, Néva P ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

^b Sars International Centre for Marine Molecular Biology   (Norway)

^c CLARK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Capitella; Eve; Pax3 7; Polychaete; Runt; Segmentation

Indexed keywords

ANNELIDA; ARTHROPODA; BILATERIA; CAPITELLA; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; POLYCHAETA;

EID: 84877146894     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20419139     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/2041-9139-3-8     Document Type: Article

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