Eyeless initiates the expression of both sine oculis and eyes absent during Drosophila compound eye development

Development

Volumn 125, Issue 12, 1998, Pages 2181-2191

  Halder, Georg ^a,b   Callaerts, Patrick ^a,c   Flister, Susanne ^a   Walldorf, Uwe ^a,d   Kloter, Urs ^a   Gehring, Walter J ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BASEL   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HOUSTON   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF HOHENHEIM   (Germany)

^e NONE

Author keywords

Drosophila; Eye development; Eyeless; Eyes absent; Pax 6; Sine oculis

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; COMPOUND EYE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEVELOPMENTAL GENETICS; DROSOPHILA; EMBRYO; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; EYE DEVELOPMENT; GENE ACTIVATION; HOMEOBOX; NONHUMAN; POSITIVE FEEDBACK; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ANIMALS; CELL DEATH; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; DROSOPHILA; DROSOPHILA PROTEINS; EYE; EYE PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; GENES, INSECT; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEINS; MORPHOGENESIS; MUTATION; PHENOTYPE;

ANIMALIA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 0031819408     PISSN: 09501991     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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