The iroquois homeodomain proteins are required to specify body wall identity in Drosophila

Genes and Development

Volumn 13, Issue 13, 1999, Pages 1754-1761

  Diez Del Corral, Ruth ^a,b   Aroca, Pilar ^a,c   Gómez Skarmeta, José Luis ^a,d   Cavodeassi, Florencia ^a   Modolell, Juan ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD AUTÓNOMA DE MADRID   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MURCIA   (Spain)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CHILE   (Chile)

Author keywords

Drosophila; Imaginal wing disc; Iroquois complex; Thorax development

Indexed keywords

HOMEODOMAIN PROTEIN;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; DEVELOPMENT; DROSOPHILA; NONHUMAN; PHYLOGENY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THORAX;

ANIMALIA; HEXAPODA; TEGULA;

EID: 0004566354     PISSN: 08909369     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1101/gad.13.13.1754     Document Type: Article

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