The effect of dominant vestigial alleles upon vestigial-mediated wing patterning during development of Drosophila melanogaster

Mechanisms of Development

Volumn 67, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 17-33

  Simmonds, A ^a,b   Hughes, S ^b   Tse, J ^a   Cocquyt, S ^a   Bell, J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Dominant alleles; Drosophila wing development; Vestigial gene expression

Indexed keywords

GENE PRODUCT;

ARTICLE; DOMINANT GENE; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; EMBRYO PATTERN FORMATION; FORELIMB; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE REPRESSION; MUTAGENESIS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVERTANT;

ANIMALS; BODY PATTERNING; CELL DEATH; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; DROSOPHILA PROTEINS; EMBRYO, NONMAMMALIAN; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; GENES, DOMINANT; MALE; MUTAGENESIS; NUCLEAR PROTEINS; PHENOTYPE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS; WING;

DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; MELANOGASTER;

EID: 0030772134     PISSN: 09254773     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0925-4773(97)00096-8     Document Type: Article

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