Plasticity of Drosophila paired function

Developmental Genetics

Volumn 23, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 45-55

  Lan, Yu ^a,c   Fujioka, Miki ^b   Polsgrove, Russell ^a   Miskiewicz, Pawel ^a   Morrissey, David ^a,d   Goto, Tadaatsu ^b   Weir, Michael ^a  

^a WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b THOMAS JEFFERSON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c JACKSON LABORATORY   (United States)

^d Exact Sciences Corporation   (United States)

Author keywords

Even skipped; Homeodomain; Paired; Paired domain; Pax proteins

Indexed keywords

DNA BINDING PROTEIN; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA BINDING; DROSOPHILA; EMBRYO; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; NONHUMAN; POINT MUTATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DOMAIN; TRANSGENE;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BASE SEQUENCE; BINDING SITES; BODY PATTERNING; DNA; DNA PRIMERS; DROSOPHILA; DROSOPHILA PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; GENES, HOMEOBOX; GENES, INSECT; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEINS; MUTAGENESIS; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

HEXAPODA;

EID: 0031818245     PISSN: 0192253X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1520-6408(1998)23:1<45::AID-DVG5>3.0.CO;2-6     Document Type: Article

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