Identification of genes controlling germ cell migration and embryonic gonad formation in Drosophila

Development

Volumn 125, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 667-678

  Moore, Lisa A ^a,b   Broihier, Heather Tarczy ^a,b   Van Doren, Mark ^a   Lunsford, Lynn B ^a,c   Lehmann, Ruth ^a,c  

^a NEW YORK UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^c HOWARD HUGHES MEDICAL INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

abdominal A; Abdominal B; Cell migration; columbus; Drosophila; even skipped; fear of intimacy; fushi tarazu; Germ cell migration; Gonadal mesoderm; heartless; hedgehog; huckebein; Mesoderm; odd paired; serpent; trithorax; trithoraxgleich; zinc finger homeodomain protein 1

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CELL INTERACTION; CELL MIGRATION; CELL TYPE; CHROMOSOME 3; CHROMOSOME MAP; CONTROLLED STUDY; DROSOPHILA; EMBRYO; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; EMBRYO PATTERN FORMATION; GENE FUNCTION; GENE MUTATION; GERM CELL; GONAD DEVELOPMENT; MESODERM; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CELL MOVEMENT; CHROMOSOME MAPPING; DROSOPHILA; DROSOPHILA PROTEINS; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; GENES, INSECT; GENETIC COMPLEMENTATION TEST; GERM CELLS; GONADS; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEINS; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; LAC OPERON; MALE; MESODERM; MUTATION; PHENOTYPE; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

ANIMALIA; ERINACEIDAE; HEXAPODA;

EID: 0031884894     PISSN: 09501991     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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