Distal-less and dachshund pattern both plesiomorphic and apomorphic structures in chelicerates: RNA interference in the harvestman Phalangium opilio (Opiliones)

Evolution and Development

Volumn 15, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 228-242

  Sharma, Prashant P ^a   Schwager, Evelyn E ^a   Giribet, Gonzalo ^a   Jockusch, Elizabeth L ^b   Extavour, Cassandra G ^a  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DISTAL LESS HOMEOBOX PROTEINS; DISTAL-LESS HOMEOBOX PROTEINS; DOUBLE STRANDED RNA; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

ARACHNID; DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY; EMBRYO; GENE EXPRESSION; HYBRIDIZATION; MORPHOLOGY; NUMERICAL MODEL; RNA; SEGMENTATION; TAXONOMY;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETIC MARKER; GENETICS; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; MOLECULAR CLONING; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; PHENOTYPE; PHYLOGENY; PHYSIOLOGY; RNA INTERFERENCE; SPIDER;

ANIMALS; CLONING, MOLECULAR; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; GENETIC MARKERS; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEINS; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; PHENOTYPE; PHYLOGENY; RNA INTERFERENCE; RNA, DOUBLE-STRANDED; SPIDERS; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

ACARI; ARACHNIDA; ARANEAE; ARTHROPODA; CHELICERATA; OPILIONES; PHALANGIUM OPILIO;

EID: 84879843119     PISSN: 1520541X     EISSN: 1525142X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/ede.12029     Document Type: Article

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