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Evolutionary plasticity of collier function in head development of diverse arthropods.
Developmental biology - 1 Aug 2010
Schaeper Nina D, Pechmann Matthias, Damen Wim G M, Prpic Nikola-Michael, Wimmer Ernst A
Abstract excerpt
The insect intercalary segment represents a small and appendage-less head segment that is homologous to the second antennal segment of Crustacea and the pedipalpal segment in Chelicerata, which are generally referred to as "tritocerebral segment." In Drosophila, the gene collier (col) has an important role for the formation of the intercalary segment. Here we show that in the beetle Tribolium castaneum col is...
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