Repression of drosophila photoreceptor cell fate through cooperative action of two transcriptional repressors yan and tramtrack

Genetics

Volumn 147, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 1131-1137

  Lai, Zhi Chun ^a   Fetchko, Michael ^a   Li, Ying ^a  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; BINDING AFFINITY; DNA BINDING; DROSOPHILA; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; NONHUMAN; PHOSPHORYLATION; PHOTORECEPTOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS;

ANIMALS; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; DROSOPHILA; DROSOPHILA PROTEINS; EYE PROTEINS; MUTATION; PHENOTYPE; PHOTORECEPTORS, INVERTEBRATE; REPRESSOR PROTEINS; ZINC FINGERS;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 0030722710     PISSN: 00166731     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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