Candidate Gene Screen in the Red Flour Beetle Tribolium Reveals Six3 as Ancient Regulator of Anterior Median Head and Central Complex Development

Unique establishment of procephalic head segments is supported by the identification of cis-regulatory elements driving segment-specific segment polarity gene expression in Drosophila

(2011) Evgenia Ntini et al.   DEVELOPMENT GENES AND EVOLUTION

Early patterning and blastodermal fate map of the head in the milkweed bug Oncopeltus fasciatus

(2011) Michael Birkan et al.   EVOLUTION & DEVELOPMENT

Six3 demarcates the anterior-most developing brain region in bilaterian animals

(2011) Patrick RH Steinmetz et al.   EvoDevo

Profiling by Image Registration Reveals Common Origin of Annelid Mushroom Bodies and Vertebrate Pallium

(2010) Raju Tomer et al.   CELL

Apparent role of Tribolium orthodenticle in anteroposterior blastoderm patterning largely reflects novel functions in dorsoventral axis formation and cell survival

(2010) K. Kotkamp et al.   DEVELOPMENT

Evolutionary plasticity of collier function in head development of diverse arthropods

(2010) Nina D. Schaeper et al.   DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY

Neuroretina specification in mouse embryos requires Six3-mediated suppression of Wnt8b in the anterior neural plate

(2010) Wei Liu et al.   JOURNAL OF CLINICAL INVESTIGATION

Lineage-based analysis of the development of the central complex of the drosophila brain

(2010) Wayne Pereanu et al.   JOURNAL OF COMPARATIVE NEUROLOGY

Conserved developmental expression of Fezf in chordates and Drosophila and the origin of the Zona Limitans Intrathalamica (ZLI) brain organizer

(2010) Manuel Irimia et al.   EvoDevo

Large-scale insertional mutagenesis of a coleopteran stored grain pest, the red flour beetle Tribolium castaneum, identifies embryonic lethal mutations and enhancer traps

(2009) Jochen Trauner et al.   BMC BIOLOGY

The transcriptional co-factor Chip acts with LIM-homeodomain proteins to set the boundary of the eye field inDrosophila

(2009) Jean-Yves Roignant et al.   DEVELOPMENT

Probing the Drosophila retinal determination gene network in Tribolium (I): The early retinal genes dachshund, eyes absent and sine oculis

(2009) Xiaoyun Yang et al.   DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY

Formation of the insect head involves lateral contribution of the intercalary segment, which depends on Tc-labial function

(2009) Nico Posnien et al.   DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY

Comparative gene expression in the heads ofDrosophila melanogasterandTribolium castaneumand the segmental affinity of theDrosophilahypopharyngeal lobes

(2009) Andrew D. Economou et al.   EVOLUTION & DEVELOPMENT

The insect upper lip (labrum) is a nonsegmental appendage-like structure

(2009) Nico Posnien et al.   EVOLUTION & DEVELOPMENT

Building the central complex inDrosophila: The generation and development of distinct neural subsets

(2009) J.M. Young et al.   JOURNAL OF COMPARATIVE NEUROLOGY

Anatomical studies of the insect central nervous system: A ground-plan of the midbrain and an introduction to the central complex in the locust, Schistocerca gregaria (Orthoptera)

(2009) J. L. D. Williams   JOURNAL OF ZOOLOGY

G-TRACE: rapid Gal4-based cell lineage analysis in Drosophila

(2009) Cory J Evans et al.   NATURE METHODS

Expression study of cadherin7 and cadherin20 in the embryonic and adult rat central nervous system

(2008) Masanori Takahashi et al.   BMC DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY

MEGA: A biologist-centric software for evolutionary analysis of DNA and protein sequences

(2008) S. Kumar et al.   BRIEFINGS IN BIOINFORMATICS

Multiple Wnt Genes Are Required for Segmentation in the Short-Germ Embryo of Tribolium castaneum

(2008) Renata Bolognesi et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

Conserved Role of the Vsx Genes Supports a Monophyletic Origin for Bilaterian Visual Systems

(2008) Ted Erclik et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

Hedgehog signaling pathway function conserved in Tribolium segmentation

(2008) Laila Farzana et al.   DEVELOPMENT GENES AND EVOLUTION

Tribolium Wnts: evidence for a larger repertoire in insects with overlapping expression patterns that suggest multiple redundant functions in embryogenesis

(2008) Renata Bolognesi et al.   DEVELOPMENT GENES AND EVOLUTION

Sites of Fgf signalling and perception during embryogenesis of the beetle Tribolium castaneum

(2008) Anke Beermann et al.   DEVELOPMENT GENES AND EVOLUTION

The Tribolium ortholog of knirps and knirps-related is crucial for head segmentation but plays a minor role during abdominal patterning

(2008) Alexander C. Cerny et al.   DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY

Divergent functions of orthodenticle, empty spiracles and buttonhead in early head patterning of the beetle Tribolium castaneum (Coleoptera)

(2008) Johannes B. Schinko et al.   DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY

Genetic interaction between the homeobox transcription factors HESX1 and SIX3 is required for normal pituitary development

(2008) Carles Gaston-Massuet et al.   DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY

Haploinsufficiency of Six3 Fails to Activate Sonic hedgehog Expression in the Ventral Forebrain and Causes Holoprosencephaly

(2008) Xin Geng et al.   DEVELOPMENTAL CELL

The evolution of nervous system centralization

(2008) D. Arendt et al.   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Building the central complex of the grasshopper Schistocerca gregaria: axons pioneering the w, x, y, z tracts project onto the primary commissural fascicle of the brain

(2007) J.L.D. Williams et al.   ARTHROPOD STRUCTURE & DEVELOPMENT

Six3 inactivation causes progressive caudalization and aberrant patterning of the mammalian diencephalon

(2007) A. Lavado et al.   DEVELOPMENT