Ectopic activation of torpedo/Egfr, a Drosophila receptor tyrosine kinase, dorsalizes both the eggshell and the embryo

Development

Volumn 124, Issue 19, 1997, Pages 3871-3880

  Queenan, Anne Marie ^a   Ghabrial, Amin ^a   Schüpbach, Trudi ^a  

^a PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Argos; Drosophila; Kekkon1; Oogenesis; Receptor tyrosine kinase; Rhomboid; Top Egfr

Indexed keywords

EPIDERMAL GROWTH FACTOR RECEPTOR; RHO FACTOR;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; DEVELOPMENTAL GENETICS; DROSOPHILA; EMBRYO; EMBRYO AXIS; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; LIFE CYCLE; NONHUMAN; OOCYTE DEVELOPMENT; OVARY FOLLICLE CELL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; VERTEBRATE;

ANIMALS; BODY PATTERNING; CELL POLARITY; CROSSES, GENETIC; DIMERIZATION; DROSOPHILA; DROSOPHILA PROTEINS; EGG SHELL; EMBRYO, NONMAMMALIAN; EYE; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, SCANNING; OVARY; OVUM; PROTEIN KINASES; RECEPTOR, EPIDERMAL GROWTH FACTOR; RECEPTORS, INVERTEBRATE PEPTIDE; VERTEBRATES; WING;

ANIMALIA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 0030782345     PISSN: 09501991     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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