Pax-6 in development and evolution

Annual Review of Neuroscience

Volumn 20, Issue , 1997, Pages 483-532

  Callaerts, Patrick ^a   Halder, Georg ^a   Gehring, Walter J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BASEL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

eye; homeobox; paired box

Indexed keywords

HOMEODOMAIN PROTEIN;

CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; EVOLUTION; EYE DEVELOPMENT; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; HOMEOBOX; NERVOUS SYSTEM DEVELOPMENT; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SPECIES DIFFERENTIATION;

ANIMALS; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; EVOLUTION; EYE PROTEINS; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEINS; PAIRED BOX TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; REPRESSOR PROTEINS; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

EID: 0031044116     PISSN: 0147006X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev.neuro.20.1.483     Document Type: Review

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