Hox genes require homothorax and extradenticle for body wall identity specification but not for appendage identity specification during metamorphosis of Tribolium castaneum

Developmental Biology

Volumn 395, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 182-197

  Smith, Frank W ^a   Jockusch, Elizabeth L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT   (United States)

Author keywords

Coleoptera; Evolution of holometaboly; Homeosis; Identity specification; RNA interference

Indexed keywords

ABDOMEN; ADULT; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL STRUCTURES; ANIMAL TISSUE; APPENDAGE IDENTITY SPECIFICATION; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL PHENOMENA AND FUNCTIONS CONCERNING THE ENTIRE ORGANISM; BODY WALL IDENTITY SPECIFICATION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DORSAL THORAX; ELYTRA; EMBRYO; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; EMBRYO SEGMENTATION; EXTRADENTICLE GENE; FEMALE; GENE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE FUNCTION; GENE LOSS; GENE SILENCING; GENE TARGETING; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC TRANSFORMATION; HEMIMETABOLOUS LIFE CYCLE; HOMEOTIC TRANSFORMATION; HOMOTHORAX GENE; HOX GENE; LARVA; LEG; LIFE CYCLE; LIP; MALE; MANDIBLE; MAXILLA; MEMBRANOUS WING; METAMORPHOSIS; MORPHOGENESIS; MORPHOLOGY; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; RNA INTERFERENCE; THORACIC STERNITE; THORAX; TRIBOLIUM CASTANEUM; ANIMAL; EMBRYOLOGY; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; HOMEOBOX; METABOLISM; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; TRIBOLIUM; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

HOMEODOMAIN PROTEIN; INSECT PROTEIN;

ANIMAL STRUCTURES; ANIMALS; BODY PATTERNING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; GENES, HOMEOBOX; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEINS; INSECT PROTEINS; LARVA; METAMORPHOSIS, BIOLOGICAL; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, SCANNING; PHENOTYPE; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA INTERFERENCE; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; TRIBOLIUM;

EID: 84907483133     PISSN: 00121606     EISSN: 1095564X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ydbio.2014.08.017     Document Type: Article

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