The roles of the homeobox genes aristaless and Distal-less in patterning the legs and wings of Drosophila

Development

Volumn 125, Issue 22, 1998, Pages 4483-4493

  Campbell, Gerard ^a,b   Tomlinson, Andrew ^a  

^a New York Presbyterian Columbia University Medical Center   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

Author keywords

aristaless (al); Distal less (Dl); Drosophila melanogaster; Leg; Pattern formation; Proximodistal axis; Wing

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL CLONE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEVELOPMENTAL GENETICS; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; EMBRYO; EMBRYO PATTERN FORMATION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE FUNCTION; HOMEOBOX; IMAGINAL DISC; LIMB DEVELOPMENT; MUTANT; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ALLELES; ANIMALS; BODY PATTERNING; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; DROSOPHILA PROTEINS; EXTREMITIES; FLUORESCENT ANTIBODY TECHNIQUE; GENES, HOMEOBOX; GENES, INSECT; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEINS; INSECT PROTEINS; MUTATION; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; WING;

ANIMALIA; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; HEXAPODA; MELANOGASTER;

EID: 0031695023     PISSN: 09501991     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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