Epidermal egr-like zinc finger protein of Drosophila participates in myotube guidance

EMBO Journal

Volumn 15, Issue 7, 1996, Pages 1642-1649

  Frommer, Götz ^a   Vorbrüggen, Gerd ^a   Pasca, Giora ^b   Jäckle, Herbert ^a   Volk, Talila ^b  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR BIOPHYSICAL CHEMISTRY   (Germany)

^b WEIZMANN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (Israel)

Author keywords

Drosophila myogenesis; Muscle attachment cells; Myotube guidance; Stripe mutant; Zinc finger protein

Indexed keywords

NUCLEAR PROTEIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; ZINC FINGER PROTEIN;

ALTERNATIVE RNA SPLICING; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEVELOPMENTAL GENETICS; DROSOPHILA; ECTODERM; EMBRYO; EMBRYO PATTERN FORMATION; EPIDERMIS; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE FUNCTION; MOLECULAR CLONING; MUSCLE DEVELOPMENT; MYOTUBE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION;

ANIMALIA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 0029925945     PISSN: 02614189     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/j.1460-2075.1996.tb00509.x     Document Type: Article

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