Compartments, wingless and engrailed: Patterning the ventral epidermis of Drosophila embryos

Development

Volumn 122, Issue 12, 1996, Pages 4095-4103

  Lawrence, Peter A ^a   Sanson, Bénédicte ^a   Vincent, Jean Paul ^a  

^a MRC LABORATORY OF MOLECULAR BIOLOGY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Compartment; Drosophila; Engrailed; Morphogen; Pattern formation; Wingless

Indexed keywords

MORPHOGEN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL DEATH; CELL DIVISION; CELL POLARITY; CELL SURVIVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CUTICLE; DROSOPHILA; EMBRYO; EMBRYO PATTERN FORMATION; EMBRYO SEGMENTATION; EPIDERMIS; FEMALE; GENE ACTIVITY; MALE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ANIMALS; BODY PATTERNING; CELL COMMUNICATION; CROSSES, GENETIC; DROSOPHILA; DROSOPHILA PROTEINS; EPIDERMIS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEINS; INSECT HORMONES; INSECT PROTEINS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

EID: 0030468936     PISSN: 09501991     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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