The Drosophila TGFα homolog Spitz acts in photoreceptor recruitment in the developing retina

Development

Volumn 124, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 343-351

  Tio, Murni ^a,b   Moses, Kevin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Drosophila; EGF receptor; Patterning; Retina; Spitz

Indexed keywords

EPIDERMAL GROWTH FACTOR RECEPTOR; PROTEIN TYROSINE KINASE; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR ALPHA;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM; COMPOUND EYE; DROSOPHILA; EYE DEVELOPMENT; NONHUMAN; PHOTORECEPTOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETINA; RETINA NERVE CELL; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

ANIMALS; BRAIN; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CHROMOSOME MAPPING; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; DROSOPHILA PROTEINS; EMBRYO, NONMAMMALIAN; EPIDERMAL GROWTH FACTOR; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; MEMBRANE PROTEINS; MOSAICISM; NEURONS; PHOTORECEPTORS, INVERTEBRATE; RECEPTOR, EPIDERMAL GROWTH FACTOR; RETINA; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR ALPHA; VERTEBRATES;

ANIMALIA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 0031046841     PISSN: 09501991     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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