Atonal is a proneural gene for a subset of olfactory sense organs in Drosophila

Genes to Cells

Volumn 2, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 225-233

  Gupta, Bhagwati Prasad ^a   Rodrigues, Veronica ^a  

^a TATA INSTITUTE OF FUNDAMENTAL RESEARCH   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATO PROTEIN, DROSOPHILA; BASIC HELIX LOOP HELIX TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; DNA BINDING PROTEIN; HELIX LOOP HELIX PROTEIN; NERVE PROTEIN;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; METABOLISM; ODOR; SENSE ORGAN;

ANIMALS; BASIC HELIX-LOOP-HELIX TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; HELIX-LOOP-HELIX MOTIFS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; NERVE TISSUE PROTEINS; SENSE ORGANS; SMELL;

EID: 0031089581     PISSN: 13569597     EISSN: 13652443     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2443.1997.d01-312.x     Document Type: Article

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