Metamorphic labral axis patterning in the beetle Tribolium castaneum requires multiple upstream, but few downstream, genes in the appendage patterning network

Evolution and Development

Volumn 16, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 78-91

  Smith, Frank W ^a   Angelini, David R ^a,b   Gaudio, Matthew S ^a   Jockusch, Elizabeth L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT   (United States)

^b Colby College   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARRAY; ARTHROPOD; BEETLE; EVOLUTION; GENE; GENETIC ANALYSIS; LIGAND; NERVOUS SYSTEM; RNA;

INSECT PROTEIN; NOTCH RECEPTOR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

ANIMAL; CYTOLOGY; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; METABOLISM; MORPHOGENESIS; RNA INTERFERENCE; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TRIBOLIUM;

ANIMALS; BODY PATTERNING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; INSECT PROTEINS; RECEPTORS, NOTCH; RNA INTERFERENCE; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; TRIBOLIUM;

EID: 84896892430     PISSN: 1520541X     EISSN: 1525142X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/ede.12066     Document Type: Article

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