The Doa locus encodes a member of a new protein kinase family and is essential for eye and embryonic development in Drosophila melanogaster

Genes and Development

Volumn 8, Issue 10, 1994, Pages 1160-1173

  Yun, Bokyoung ^a   Farkas, Robert ^a,b   Lee, Run ^a   Rabinow, Leonard ^a  

^a RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b INSTITUTE OF EXPERIMENTAL ENDOCRINOLOGY   (Slovakia)

Author keywords

Doa; Drosophila; eye development; LAMMER; protein kinase

Indexed keywords

PROTEIN SERINE THREONINE KINASE;

ARTICLE; AUTOPHOSPHORYLATION; CELL DEGENERATION; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; EMBRYO; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; EMBRYO SEGMENTATION; EYE DEVELOPMENT; GENE LOCUS; NONHUMAN; PHOTORECEPTOR; PIGMENT CELL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROPOSON;

DOA; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; MELANOGASTER; PRUNUS ARMENIACA; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE;

EID: 0028303751     PISSN: 08909369     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1101/gad.8.10.1160     Document Type: Article

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