Complex regulatory region mediating tailless expression in early embryonic patterning and brain development

Development

Volumn 124, Issue 21, 1997, Pages 4297-4308

  Rudolph, Karen M ^a,b   Liaw, Gwo Jen ^a,c   Daniel, Ann ^a   Green, Patricia ^a,d   Courey, Albert J ^a   Hartenstein, Volker ^a   Lengyel, Judith A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b USGS National Wildlife Health Center Idaho   (United States)

^c NATIONAL YANG MING UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^d NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Brain development; Neuroblast fate; Regulatory module; tailless gene; torso receptor; Transcription factor; Tyrosine kinase

Indexed keywords

TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

ARTICLE; BLASTODERM; BRAIN DEVELOPMENT; DNA FLANKING REGION; DROSOPHILA; EMBRYO PATTERN FORMATION; GENE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE FUNCTION; NEUROBLAST; NONHUMAN; OPTIC LOBE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPORTER GENE; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION;

ANIMALS; BETA-GALACTOSIDASE; BLASTODERM; BODY PATTERNING; BRAIN; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; DROSOPHILA; DROSOPHILA PROTEINS; EMBRYO, NONMAMMALIAN; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; MALE; RECEPTOR PROTEIN-TYROSINE KINASES; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS; REGULATORY SEQUENCES, NUCLEIC ACID; REPRESSOR PROTEINS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

EID: 0030693879     PISSN: 09501991     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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