crooked legs encodes a family of zinc finger proteins required for leg morphogenesis and ecdysone-regulated gene expression during Drosophila metamorphosis

Development

Volumn 125, Issue 9, 1998, Pages 1733-1745

  D'Avino, Pier Paolo ^a   Thummel, Carl S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF UTAH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Drosophila; Ecdysone; Imaginal disc development; Metamorphosis; Transcriptional regulation; Zinc finger

Indexed keywords

ECDYSONE; ISOPROTEIN; ZINC FINGER PROTEIN;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; DEVELOPMENTAL GENETICS; DIFFERENTIATION; DROSOPHILA; EMBRYO; IMAGINAL DISC; LARVAL DEVELOPMENT; LEG; LIMB DEVELOPMENT; METAMORPHOSIS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REGULATOR GENE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; DROSOPHILA; DROSOPHILA PROTEINS; ECDYSONE; EXTREMITIES; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; GENES, INSECT; GENES, LETHAL; HEAD; LARVA; METAMORPHOSIS, BIOLOGICAL; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MORPHOGENESIS; MUTATION; PUPA; RNA, MESSENGER; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; ZINC FINGERS;

ANIMALIA; ARACHNIDA; HEXAPODA; INSECTA;

EID: 0031860760     PISSN: 09501991     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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