shotgun encodes Drosophila E-cadherin and is preferentially required during cell rearrangement in the neurectoderm and other morphogenetically active epithelia

Genes and Development

Volumn 10, Issue 6, 1996, Pages 672-685

  Tepass, Ulrich ^a,c   Gruszynski DeFeo, Eileen ^a   Haag, Thomas A ^a   Omatyar, Lili ^a   Török, Tibor ^b   Hartenstein, Volker ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b INSTITUTE OF EXPERIMENTAL MEDICINE   (Hungary)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

cell rearrangement; DE cadherin; epithelium; morphogenesis; neurectoderm

Indexed keywords

CADHERIN; CATENIN; UVOMORULIN;

ANIMAL CELL; ARMADILLO; ARTICLE; CELL MIGRATION; DROSOPHILA; EPITHELIUM CELL; GENE LOCUS; ISOLATION PROCEDURE; NEUROECTODERM; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY;

ANIMALIA; ARMADILLO; INVERTEBRATA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 0029880967     PISSN: 08909369     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1101/gad.10.6.672     Document Type: Article

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