Periodic Wnt1 expression in response to ecdysteroid generates twin-spot markings on caterpillars

Nature Communications

Volumn 4, Issue , 2013, Pages

  Yamaguchi, Junichi ^a   Banno, Yutaka ^b   Mita, Kazuei ^a   Yamamoto, Kimiko ^a   Ando, Toshiya ^a   Fujiwara, Haruhiko ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b KYUSHU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ECDYSTEROID; WNT1 PROTEIN;

APOSEMATISM; BUTTERFLY; CATERPILLAR; GENE EXPRESSION; PIGMENT;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BOMBYX MORI; BUTTERFLY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CUTICLE; MOLECULAR CLONING; MUTANT; NONHUMAN; PAPILIO MACHAON; PIGMENTATION; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; UPREGULATION;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; BOMBYX; CLONING, MOLECULAR; CONSERVED SEQUENCE; ECDYSTEROIDS; EPIDERMIS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; GENETIC LINKAGE; GENOME, INSECT; GENOTYPE; LARVA; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTATION; PHENOTYPE; PHYSICAL CHROMOSOME MAPPING; PIGMENTATION; PLASMIDS; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; SPATIO-TEMPORAL ANALYSIS; TRANSGENES; WNT PROTEINS;

BOMBYX; BOMBYX MORI; PAPILIO MACHAON; PAPILIONIDAE;

EID: 84878729148     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms2778     Document Type: Article

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