A functional homologue of goosecoid in drosophila

Development

Volumn 122, Issue 5, 1996, Pages 1641-1650

  Goriely, Anne ^a   Stella, Michael ^a   Coffinier, Catherine ^a   Kessler, Daniel ^b   Mailhos, Carolina ^a   Dessain, Scott ^c   Desplan, Claude ^a  

^a ROCKEFELLER UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Drosophila; Foregut; Gastrulation; Goosecoid xenopus; Homeodomain; Phylogeny

Indexed keywords

HOMEODOMAIN PROTEIN;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEVELOPMENTAL GENETICS; DROSOPHILA; ECTODERM; EMBRYO AXIS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETIC CONSERVATION; HOMEOBOX; MOLECULAR CLONING; NERVOUS SYSTEM DEVELOPMENT; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DOMAIN; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; XENOPUS;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CLONING, MOLECULAR; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; DROSOPHILA; DROSOPHILA PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; GENES, HOMEOBOX; GENES, INSECT; GOOSECOID PROTEIN; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEINS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MORPHOGENESIS; REPRESSOR PROTEINS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; XENOPUS;

ANIMALIA; INSECTA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 0030008811     PISSN: 09501991     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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