Role of caudal hindgut specification and gastrulation suggests homology between Drosophila amnioproctodeal invagination and vertebrate blastopore

Development

Volumn 125, Issue 13, 1998, Pages 2433-2442

  Wu, Linda H ^a   Lengyel, Judith A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

brachyenteron; Brachyury; caudal; Cdx; Drosophila; folded gastrulation; fork head; Gastrulation; Hindgut; HNF 3; wingless; Wnt

Indexed keywords

TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

ARTICLE; DEVELOPMENT; DROSOPHILA; EMBRYO; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; GASTRULATION; GENE; INTESTINE; INVAGINATION; MALPIGHIAN TUBULE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ANIMALS; BODY PATTERNING; CROSSES, GENETIC; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; DROSOPHILA PROTEINS; EMBRYO, NONMAMMALIAN; EMBRYONIC INDUCTION; FEMALE; GASTRULA; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEINS; HOMOZYGOTE; INTESTINES; MALE; MORPHOGENESIS; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; VERTEBRATES; ZYGOTE;

EID: 0031878588     PISSN: 09501991     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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