Variation in the number of activated torso receptors correlates with differential gene expression

Development

Volumn 122, Issue 7, 1996, Pages 2313-2317

  Furriols, Marc ^a   Sprenger, Frank ^b   Casanova, Jordi ^a  

^a DEPT OF ENVIRONMENTAL CHEMISTRY   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Drosophila; Gene expresion; Receptor tyrosinase kinase; Signal transduction; Torso; Trunk

Indexed keywords

CELL SURFACE RECEPTOR; PROTEIN TYROSINE KINASE;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEVELOPMENTAL GENETICS; DROSOPHILA; EMBRYO; ENZYME ACTIVATION; GENE ACTIVATION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE MUTATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; BLOTTING, NORTHERN; DROSOPHILA; DROSOPHILA PROTEINS; EMBRYO, NONMAMMALIAN; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MORPHOGENESIS; MUTAGENESIS, SITE-DIRECTED; PROTEINS; RECEPTOR PROTEIN-TYROSINE KINASES; RECEPTORS, CELL SURFACE; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 0030062199     PISSN: 09501991     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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