Post-transcriptional regulation of gurken by encore is required for axis determination in Drosophila

Development

Volumn 124, Issue 23, 1997, Pages 4801-4810

  Hawkins, Nancy C ^a,c   Van Buskirk, Cheryl ^a   Grossniklaus, Ueli ^b,d   Schüpbach, Trudi ^a  

^a PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BASEL   (Switzerland)

^c University of California Berkeley   (United States)

^d Howard Hughes Medical Institute Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Cold Spring Harbor   (United States)

Author keywords

Axis formation; Drosophila; gurken; Oogenesis; Post transcriptional regulation

Indexed keywords

PROTEIN; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR ALPHA;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANTERIOR POSTERIOR AXIS; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEVELOPMENTAL GENETICS; DROSOPHILA; EMBRYO; EMBRYO AXIS; EMBRYO PATTERN FORMATION; FEMALE; GENE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; NONHUMAN; OOCYTE DEVELOPMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ANIMALS; BODY PATTERNING; COLD; DROSOPHILA; DROSOPHILA PROTEINS; EMBRYO, NONMAMMALIAN; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; INSECT PROTEINS; MUTATION; OOGENESIS; OVARIAN FOLLICLE; OVUM; RECEPTOR, EPIDERMAL GROWTH FACTOR; RNA PROCESSING, POST-TRANSCRIPTIONAL; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR ALPHA; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTORS;

ANIMALIA; HEXAPODA;

EID: 0031436032     PISSN: 09501991     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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