Buttonhead and D-Sp1: A novel Drosophila gene pair

Mechanisms of Development

Volumn 59, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 53-62

  Wimmer, Ernst A ^a,c   Frommer, Götz ^b,c   Purnell, Beverly A ^c   Jäckle, Herbert ^c  

^a ROCKEFELLER UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ULM   (Germany)

^c MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR BIOPHYSICAL CHEMISTRY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Chordotonal organs; Gene pair; Head development; Peripheral nervous system; Zinc finger proteins

Indexed keywords

TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR SP1; ZINC FINGER PROTEIN;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; BLASTODERM; CELL MUTANT; CELL STRUCTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMBRYO; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; GASTRULATION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE FUNCTION; HEAD; NERVOUS SYSTEM DEVELOPMENT; NONHUMAN; PERIPHERAL NERVOUS SYSTEM; PHENOTYPE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; X CHROMOSOME;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 0030249721     PISSN: 09254773     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0925-4773(96)00575-8     Document Type: Article

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