Dual function of the region-specific homeotic gene spalt during Drosophila tracheal system development

Development

Volumn 122, Issue 7, 1996, Pages 2215-2223

  Kühnlein, Ronald P ^a   Schuh, Reinhard ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR BIOPHYSICAL CHEMISTRY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Development; Drosophila; Embryogenesis; spalt; Trachea

Indexed keywords

TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; ZINC FINGER PROTEIN;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BLASTODERM; CELL MIGRATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DROSOPHILA; EMBRYO; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; FEMALE; GENE FUNCTION; HOMEOBOX; MALE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TRACHEA;

ANIMALS; CELL MOVEMENT; CLONING, MOLECULAR; DROSOPHILA; DROSOPHILA PROTEINS; EMBRYO, NONMAMMALIAN; FEMALE; GENES, HOMEOBOX; GENES, INSECT; HEAT-SHOCK PROTEINS; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEINS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; INSECT HORMONES; MALE; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, SCANNING; MORPHOGENESIS; TRACHEA; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; ZINC FINGERS;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 0030056105     PISSN: 09501991     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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