Threshold responses to the dorsal regulatory gradient and the subdivision of primary tissue territories in the Drosophila embryo

Current Opinion in Genetics and Development

Volumn 6, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 416-423

  Rusch, Jannette ^a   Levine, Michael ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

DEVELOPMENTAL GENETICS; DROSOPHILA; ECTODERM; EMBRYO; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; EMBRYO INDUCTION; EMBRYO PATTERN FORMATION; EMBRYO POLARITY; GASTRULATION; MESODERM; NEUROECTODERM; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REGULATORY MECHANISM; REVIEW; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

GASTROPODA;

EID: 0030217951     PISSN: 0959437X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0959-437X(96)80062-1     Document Type: Article

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