Evidence for engrailed-independent wingless autoregulation in Drosophila

Developmental Biology

Volumn 170, Issue 2, 1995, Pages 636-650

  Yoffe, Kenneth B ^a   Manoukian, Armen S ^a   Wilder, Elizabeth L ^a   Brand, Andrea H ^b   Perrimon, Norbert ^a,c  

^a HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^c HOWARD HUGHES MEDICAL INSTITUTE   (United States)

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EID: 0029114331     PISSN: 00121606     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/dbio.1995.1243     Document Type: Article

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