heartless encodes a fibroblast growth factor receptor (DFR1/DFGF-R2) involved in the directional migration of early mesodermal cells in the Drosophila embryo

Genes and Development

Volumn 10, Issue 23, 1996, Pages 3003-3017

  Gisselbrecht, Stephen ^a   Skeath, James B ^b   Doe, Chris Q ^b   Michelson, Alan M ^a  

^a BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

Author keywords

cell migration; heart development; mesoderm; myogenesis; Receptor tyrosine kinase; signaling

Indexed keywords

FIBROBLAST GROWTH FACTOR RECEPTOR; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR BETA;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CELL MIGRATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DROSOPHILA; ECTODERM; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; MESODERM; MUSCLE DEVELOPMENT; MUTANT; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 0029849087     PISSN: 08909369     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1101/gad.10.23.3003     Document Type: Article

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