The expression pattern of the genes engrailed, pax6, otd and six3 with special respect to head and eye development in Euperipatoides kanangrensis Reid 1996 (Onychophora: Peripatopsidae)

Development Genes and Evolution

Volumn 223, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 237-246

  Eriksson, Bo Joakim ^a   Samadi, Leyli ^a   Schmid, Axel ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

Author keywords

CNS; Development; Engrailed expression; Eye; Onychophora; Otd; Pax6; Six3

Indexed keywords

TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR PAX6; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR SIX3;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEVELOPMENTAL GENE; DEVELOPMENTAL STAGE; EMBRYO; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; ENGRAILED GENE; EUPERIPATOIDES KANANGRENSIS; EYE DEVELOPMENT; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE LOCATION; HEAD; HEAD DEVELOPMENT; NERVE GROWTH; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; ONYCHOPHORA; ORGANOGENESIS; OTD GENE; PAX6 GENE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SIX3 GENE; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION; VENTRAL ROOT;

ANIMALS; EYE; EYE PROTEINS; GANGLIA, INVERTEBRATE; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEINS; INVERTEBRATES; NERVE TISSUE PROTEINS; NEURAL PLATE; PAIRED BOX TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

ANIMALIA; ARTHROPODA; EUPERIPATOIDES; ONYCHOPHORA; PERIPATOPSIDAE;

EID: 84879554437     PISSN: 0949944X     EISSN: 1432041X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00427-013-0442-z     Document Type: Article

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