Spitz and Wingless, emanating from distinct borders, cooperate to establish cell fate across the Engrailed domain in the Drosophila epidermis

Development

Volumn 124, Issue 23, 1997, Pages 4837-4845

  O'Keefe, Louise ^a,d   Dougan, Scott T ^a,c   Gabay, Limor ^b   Raz, Erez ^b,e   Shilo, Ben Zion ^b   Dinardo, Stephen ^a  

^a ROCKEFELLER UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b WEIZMANN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (Israel)

^c NEW YORK UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ADELAIDE   (Australia)

^e UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Anterior open; DER; Drosophila; MAP kinase; Rhomboid; Spitz; Wingless; Yan

Indexed keywords

EPIDERMAL GROWTH FACTOR RECEPTOR; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEIN; MITOGEN ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE; RAS PROTEIN;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL TYPE; DEVELOPMENTAL GENETICS; DROSOPHILA; EMBRYO; EMBRYO PATTERN FORMATION; EPIDERMIS; GENE MUTATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ANIMALS; CA(2+)-CALMODULIN DEPENDENT PROTEIN KINASE; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; DROSOPHILA; DROSOPHILA PROTEINS; EMBRYONIC INDUCTION; EPIDERMAL GROWTH FACTOR; EPIDERMIS; EYE PROTEINS; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEINS; MEMBRANE PROTEINS; MUTATION; PROTEIN KINASES; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS; RECEPTOR, EPIDERMAL GROWTH FACTOR; RECEPTORS, INVERTEBRATE PEPTIDE; REPRESSOR PROTEINS; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

EID: 0031444518     PISSN: 09501991     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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