A functional genetic analysis in flour beetles (Tenebrionidae) reveals an antennal identity specification mechanism active during metamorphosis in Holometabola

Mechanisms of Development

Volumn 132, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 13-27

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

^a UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT   (United States)

^b Colby College   (United States)

Author keywords

Coleoptera; Deutocerebral segment; Ground state; Homeosis; Identity specification; RNAi

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL TISSUE; ANTENNA (ORGAN); ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISTAL LESS GENE; DROSOPHILA; EVOLUTION; EXTRADENTICLE GENE; GENE; GENE TARGETING; GENETIC ANALYSIS; HOLOMETABOLA; HOMOTHORAX GENE; LATHETICUS ORYZAE; LEG; LOSS OF FUNCTION MUTATION; METAMORPHOSIS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RNA INTERFERENCE; SPINELESS GENE; TENEBRIONIDAE; TRIBOLIUM; TRIBOLIUM BREVICORNIS; TRIBOLIUM CASTANEUM; TRIBOLIUM CONFUSUM;

ARTHROPODA; COLEOPTERA; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; ENDOPTERYGOTA; LATHETICUS ORYZAE; TENEBRIONIDAE; TRIBOLIUM (BEETLE); TRIBOLIUM BREVICORNIS; TRIBOLIUM CASTANEUM; TRIBOLIUM CONFUSUM;

COLEOPTERA; DEUTOCEREBRAL SEGMENT; GROUND STATE; HOMEOSIS; IDENTITY SPECIFICATION; RNAI;

ANIMALS; BEETLES; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; BODY PATTERNING; DROSOPHILA; DROSOPHILA PROTEINS; EXTREMITIES; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; INSECT PROTEINS; METAMORPHOSIS, BIOLOGICAL; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; TRIBOLIUM;

EID: 84897025251     PISSN: 09254773     EISSN: 18726356     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.mod.2014.02.002     Document Type: Article

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