Regulation of two pair-rule stripes by a single enhancer in the Drosophila embryo

Developmental Biology

Volumn 175, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 314-324

  Small, Stephen ^a   Blair, Adrienne ^b,c   Levine, Michael ^b  

^a NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA; DNA BINDING PROTEIN; REPRESSOR PROTEIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; ZINC FINGER PROTEIN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEVELOPMENTAL GENETICS; DROSOPHILA; EMBRYO; EMBRYO PATTERN FORMATION; EMBRYO SEGMENTATION; ENHANCER REGION; GENE MAPPING; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN DNA BINDING; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

EID: 0030013231     PISSN: 00121606     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/dbio.1996.0117     Document Type: Article

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