The Dichaete gene of Drosophila melanogaster encodes a SOX-domain protein required for embryonic segmentation

Development

Volumn 122, Issue 11, 1996, Pages 3669-3676

  Russell, Steven R H ^a   Sanchez Soriano, Natalia ^a   Wright, Charles R ^a   Ashburner, Michael ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Dichaete; Drosophila; Gene regulation; Pair rule; Segmentation; Sox70D

Indexed keywords

HIGH MOBILITY GROUP PROTEIN; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEIN; TESTIS DETERMINING FACTOR;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEVELOPMENTAL GENETICS; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; EMBRYO; EMBRYO SEGMENTATION; GENE DELETION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE ISOLATION; MOLECULAR CLONING; MUTANT; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; ANIMALS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; BODY PATTERNING; CHICKENS; CHROMATIN; CLONING, MOLECULAR; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; DROSOPHILA PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; GENES, INSECT; HIGH MOBILITY GROUP PROTEINS; HUMANS; MICE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; RESTRICTION MAPPING; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

ANIMALIA; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; MAMMALIA; MELANOGASTER;

EID: 0029955137     PISSN: 09501991     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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