The vrille gene of drosophila is a maternal enhancer of decapentaplegic and encodes a new member of the bZIP family of transcription factors

Genetics

Volumn 146, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 1345-1363

  George, Hélène ^a   Terracol, Régine ^a  

^a INSTITUT JACQUES MONOD   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; DROSOPHILA; EMBRYO; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; ENHANCER REGION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE MUTATION; LARVA; LIMB DEVELOPMENT; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

ALLELES; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; BASIC-LEUCINE ZIPPER TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; CHROMOSOME MAPPING; DNA; DNA PRIMERS; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; DROSOPHILA; DROSOPHILA PROTEINS; ENHANCER ELEMENTS (GENETICS); FEMALE; G-BOX BINDING FACTORS; GENES, INSECT; GENES, LETHAL; HUMANS; INSECT PROTEINS; MALE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHENOTYPE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TRANS-ACTIVATORS; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR BETA; WING; XENOPUS LAEVIS;

ANIMALIA; XENOPUS LAEVIS;

EID: 0030754620     PISSN: 00166731     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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