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Candidate gene screen in the red flour beetle Tribolium reveals six3 as ancient regulator of anterior median head and central complex development.
PLoS genetics - 1 Dec 2011
Posnien Nico, Koniszewski Nikolaus Dieter Bernhard, Hein Hendrikje Jeannette, Bucher Gregor
Abstract excerpt
Several highly conserved genes play a role in anterior neural plate patterning of vertebrates and in head and brain patterning of insects. However, head involution in Drosophila has impeded a systematic identification of genes required for insect head formation. Therefore, we use the red flour beetle Tribolium castaneum in order to comprehensively test the function of orthologs of vertebrate neural plate...
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