The Drosophila decapentaplegic and short gastrulation genes function antagonistically during adult wing vein development

Development

Volumn 122, Issue 12, 1996, Pages 4033-4044

  Yu, Kweon ^a   Sturtevant, Mark A ^a,b   Biehs, Brian ^a   François, Vincent ^a,e   Padgett, Richard W ^c   Blackman, Ronald K ^d,f   Bier, Ethan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b NORTHERN ARIZONA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

^e CNRS   (France)

^f ChemGenics Pharmaceuticals   (United States)

Author keywords

Antagonism; Decapentaplegic (dpp); Drosophila; Short gastrulation (sog); Wing vein development

Indexed keywords

TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR BETA;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BLASTODERM; CONTROLLED STUDY; DROSOPHILA; ECTODERM; EMBRYO; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; EVOLUTION; FEEDBACK SYSTEM; FEMALE; GENE; GENE ACTIVATION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE FUNCTION; INVERTEBRATE; MALE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VERTEBRATE; ZYGOTE;

ANIMALS; BODY PATTERNING; DROSOPHILA; DROSOPHILA PROTEINS; GENE DOSAGE; GENES, INSECT; INSECT PROTEINS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MUTATION; PHENOTYPE; PUPA; TIME FACTORS; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR BETA; WING;

EID: 0030464160     PISSN: 09501991     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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