Two distinct mechanisms for differential positioning of gene expression borders involving the Drosophila gap protein giant

Development

Volumn 125, Issue 19, 1998, Pages 3765-3774

  Wu, Xuelin ^a   Vakani, Rajesh ^a   Small, Stephen ^a  

^a NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Drosophila melanogaster; Giant; Patterning; Repression; Segmentation

Indexed keywords

MESSENGER RNA; PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; CELL NUCLEUS; DEVELOPMENTAL GENETICS; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; EMBRYO PATTERN FORMATION; EMBRYO SEGMENTATION; GENE REPRESSION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BASE SEQUENCE; BODY PATTERNING; DNA; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; DROSOPHILA; DROSOPHILA PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; GENE TARGETING; GENES, INSECT; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEINS; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; INSECT PROTEINS; KRUPPEL-LIKE TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; MUTATION; REPRESSOR PROTEINS; RNA, MESSENGER; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; ZYGOTE;

ARACHNIDA; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; HEXAPODA; MELANOGASTER;

EID: 0031794821     PISSN: 09501991     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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