Lineage-specific evolution of cnidarian Wnt ligands

Evolution and Development

Volumn 16, Issue 5, 2014, Pages 259-269

  Hensel, Katrin ^a   Lotan, Tamar ^b   Sanders, Steve M ^c   Cartwright, Paulyn ^c   Frank, Uri ^a  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF IRELAND   (Ireland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HAIFA   (Israel)

^c UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTHOZOA; BILATERIA; CNIDARIA; HYDRA; HYDRACTINIA; HYDRACTINIA ECHINATA; HYDROZOA; NEMATOSTELLA;

WNT PROTEIN;

ANIMAL; CNIDARIA; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MORPHOGENESIS; PHYLOGENY;

ANIMALS; BODY PATTERNING; CNIDARIA; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENE EXPRESSION; PHYLOGENY; WNT PROTEINS;

EID: 84906793865     PISSN: 1520541X     EISSN: 1525142X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/ede.12089     Document Type: Article

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