The Drosophila Medea gene is required downstream of dpp and encodes a functional homolog of human Smad4

Development

Volumn 125, Issue 8, 1998, Pages 1407-1420

  Hudson, John B ^a   Podos, Steven D ^a   Keith, Kallie ^a   Simpson, Susan L ^a   Ferguson, Edwin L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

Dorsal ventral patterning; dpp; Drosophila; Mad; Medea; Smad4; TGF signal transduction

Indexed keywords

MESSENGER RNA; MORPHOGEN; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR BETA;

ALLELE; ARTICLE; DROSOPHILA; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; ENHANCER REGION; FEMALE; GENE CONTROL; GENE MAPPING; GENETIC ANALYSIS; HUMAN; IMAGINAL DISC; MALE; MOLECULAR CLONING; MUTATION; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

HEXAPODA;

EID: 0031839403     PISSN: 09501991     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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