Control of early neurogenesis of the Drosophila brain by the head gap genes tll, otd, ems, and btd

Developmental Biology

Volumn 182, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 270-283

  Younossi Hartenstein, Amelia ^a   Green, Patricia ^b   Liaw, Gwo Jen ^c   Rudolph, Karen ^d   Lengyel, Judith ^a   Hartenstein, Volker ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c NATIONAL YANG MING UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^d UNIVERSITY OF IDAHO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN DEVELOPMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DROSOPHILA; EMBRYO; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; GENE CONTROL; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC REGULATION; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; MUTANT; NERVOUS SYSTEM DEVELOPMENT; NEUROBLAST; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 0031568844     PISSN: 00121606     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/dbio.1996.8475     Document Type: Article

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