Sequence, organization, and transcription of the Dlx-1 and Dlx-2 locus

Genomics

Volumn 35, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 473-485

  McGuinness, Teresa ^a   Porteus, Matthew H ^a   Smiga, Susan ^a   Bulfone, Alessandro ^a   Kingsley, Chris ^a   Qiu, Mengsheng ^a   Liu, Jen Kuei ^a   Long, Jason E ^a   Xu, Danwen ^a   Rubenstein, John L R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CHROMOSOME 2; DROSOPHILA; GENE LOCUS; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; HOMEOBOX; NEURAL CREST; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS;

MURINAE;

EID: 0030219010     PISSN: 08887543     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/geno.1996.0387     Document Type: Article

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