hunchback Functions as a Segmentation Gene in the Spider Achaearanea tepidariorum
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hunchback Functions as a Segmentation Gene in the Spider Achaearanea tepidariorum
BACKGROUND In insects, the gap gene hunchback (hb) is required for the formation of a set of adjacent segments through the regulation of downstream target genes of the pair rule and segment-polarity classes. In addition, hb is a major regulator of Hox genes and it has been suggested that this is the ancestral role of hb in insects or perhaps even arthropods. To date, however, hb function has be...
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عنوان ژورنال: Current Biology
سال: 2009
ISSN: 0960-9822
DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2009.06.061