Developmental evolution: Axial patterning in insects

Authors
Dearden, P Akam, M
Citation
P. Dearden et M. Akam, Developmental evolution: Axial patterning in insects, CURR BIOL, 9(16), 1999, pp. R591-R594
Citations number
28
Categorie Soggetti
Experimental Biology
Journal title
CURRENT BIOLOGY
ISSN journal
09609822 → ACNP
Volume
9
Issue
16
Year of publication
1999
Pages
R591 - R594
Database
ISI
SICI code
0960-9822(19990826)9:16<R591:DEAPII>2.0.ZU;2-J
Abstract
The Drosophila bicoid gene is well known for encoding a protein that forms a morphogenetic gradient with a key role in anterior patterning of the frui tfly embryo. Recent results suggest the evolution of bicoid might have invo lved dramatic changes in function essentially the invention of a new regula tory protein.