Deciphering the onychophoran 'segmentation gene cascade': Gene expression reveals limited involvement of pair rule gene orthologs in segmentation, but a highly conserved segment polarity gene network

Developmental Biology

Volumn 382, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 224-234

  Janssen, Ralf ^a   Budd, Graham E ^a  

^a UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Cubitus interruptus; Development; Even skipped; Hairy; Hedgehog; Notum; Odd paired; Odd skipped; Onychophora; Pairberry; Paired; Patched; Runt; Sloppy paired

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANNELID; ARTICLE; ECDYSOZOA; EMBRYO; EMBRYO PATTERN FORMATION; EMBRYO SEGMENTATION; EVE GENE; GENE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE FUNCTION; HAIRY GENE; HES GENE; LOPHOTROCHOZOA; NONHUMAN; NOTUM GENE; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; ODD GENE; ONYCHOPHORA; PAIR RULE GENE; PBY GENE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RUN GENE; SEGMENT POLARITY GENE;

ANNELIDA; ARTHROPODA; CUBITUS INTERRUPTUS; ECDYSOZOA; ERINACEIDAE; HEXAPODA; LOPHOTROCHOZOA; ONYCHOPHORA;

EID: 84884415574     PISSN: 00121606     EISSN: 1095564X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ydbio.2013.07.010     Document Type: Article

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