The hardwiring of development: Organization and function of genomic regulatory systems

Development

Volumn 124, Issue 10, 1997, Pages 1851-1864

  Arnone, Maria I ^a   Davidson, Eric H ^a  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Cis regulatory element; Gene network; Gene regulation; Regulatory module; Transcription factor

Indexed keywords

TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

ARTICLE; DEVELOPMENTAL GENETICS; GENE CONTROL; GENETIC LINKAGE; GENETIC ORGANIZATION; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DNA INTERACTION; RAT;

ANIMALS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; GENES, REGULATOR; HUMANS; REGULATORY SEQUENCES, NUCLEIC ACID; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

EID: 0030986188     PISSN: 09501991     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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