Regulation of the Tribolium homologues of caudal and hunchback in Drosophila: Evidence for maternal gradient systems in a short germ embryo

Development

Volumn 125, Issue 18, 1998, Pages 3645-3654

  Wolff, Christian ^a   Schröder, Reinhard ^a   Schulz, Cordula ^b   Tautz, Diethard ^a   Klingler, Martin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Bicoid; Blastoderm fate map; Caudal; Drosophila melanogaster; Evolution of development; Hunchback; Maternal genes; Short germ embryogenesis; Tribolium castaneum

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; DEVELOPMENTAL GENETICS; DNA FOOTPRINTING; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; EMBRYO; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; ENHANCER REGION; EVOLUTION; GENE TRANSFER; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; RNA TRANSLATION; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SEROSA; TRIBOLIUM;

ANIMALS; BINDING SITES; CHROMOSOME MAPPING; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; DROSOPHILA; DROSOPHILA PROTEINS; EMBRYONIC DEVELOPMENT; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEINS; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; INSECT PROTEINS; JUVENILE HORMONES; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; TRIBOLIUM; ZINC FINGERS;

ANIMALIA; ARACHNIDA; DIPTERA; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; HEXAPODA; INSECTA; MELANOGASTER; TRIBOLIUM CASTANEUM;

EID: 0031685937     PISSN: 09501991     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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