Equivalence of the fly orthodenticle gene and the human OTX genes in embryonic brain development of Drosophila

Development

Volumn 125, Issue 9, 1998, Pages 1703-1710

  Leuzinger, Sandra ^a   Hirth, Frank ^a   Gerlich, Daniel ^a   Acampora, Dario ^b   Simeone, Antonio ^b   Gehring, Walter J ^c   Finkelstein, Robert ^d   Furukubo Tokunaga, Katsuo ^e   Reichert, Heinrich ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BASEL   (Switzerland)

^b INSTITUTE OF GENETICS AND BIOPHYSICS ADRIANO BUZZATI TRAVERSO   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BASEL   (Switzerland)

^d UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF TSUKUBA   (Japan)

Author keywords

Brain development; Evolution; Gap gene; Genetic rescue; Orthodenticle; OTX1; OTX2

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN DEVELOPMENT; DEVELOPMENTAL GENETICS; DROSOPHILA; EMBRYO; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; FOREBRAIN; HUMAN; MESENCEPHALON; MORPHOLOGY; MULTIGENE FAMILY; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VENTRAL ROOT;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; BRAIN; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM; DROSOPHILA; DROSOPHILA PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION; GENES, HOMEOBOX; GENES, INSECT; HEAT; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEINS; HUMANS; MORPHOGENESIS; MUTATION; NERVE TISSUE PROTEINS; OTX TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; PHENOTYPE; TRANS-ACTIVATORS; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

ANIMALIA; ARACHNIDA; HEXAPODA; INSECTA; INVERTEBRATA; MAMMALIA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 0031859828     PISSN: 09501991     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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