decapentaplegic acts as a morphogen to organize dorsal-ventral pattern in the Drosophila embryo

Cell

Volumn 71, Issue 3, 1992, Pages 451-461

  Ferguson, Edwin L ^a   Anderson, Kathryn V ^a  

^a University of California Berkeley   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACTIVIN; RNA; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR BETA;

ARTICLE; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; DROSOPHILA; ECTODERM; GASTRULATION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; MORPHOGENESIS; MULTIGENE FAMILY; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; XENOPUS LAEVIS; ZYGOTE;

ANIMAL; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; ECTODERM; GASTRULA; INSECT HORMONES; MORPHOGENESIS; RNA, MESSENGER; SUPPORT, U.S. GOV'T, P.H.S.; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR BETA;

XENOPUS LAEVIS;

EID: 0026451642     PISSN: 00928674     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0092-8674(92)90514-D     Document Type: Article

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