The Xenopus homologue of the Drosophila gene tailless has a function in early eye development

Development

Volumn 125, Issue 13, 1998, Pages 2425-2432

  Hollemann, Thomas ^a   Bellefroid, Eric ^a,b   Pieler, Tomas ^a  

^a Inst F Biochem Molec Z   (Germany)

^b WELLCOME CRC INSTITUTE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Eye development; Pax6; Rx; Tailless; Xenopus laevis

Indexed keywords

COMPLEMENTARY DNA;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA LIBRARY; DROSOPHILA; EMBRYO; EYE DEVELOPMENT; GENE; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; MORPHOGENESIS; NEUROECTODERM; NONHUMAN; OPTIC DISK CUP; PRIORITY JOURNAL; XENOPUS;

AGING; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; CLONING, MOLECULAR; CONSERVED SEQUENCE; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; DROSOPHILA; DROSOPHILA PROTEINS; EMBRYO, NONMAMMALIAN; EMBRYONIC INDUCTION; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; EYE; EYE PROTEINS; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEINS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MORPHOGENESIS; OOCYTES; PAIRED BOX TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; RECEPTORS, CYTOPLASMIC AND NUCLEAR; REPRESSOR PROTEINS; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; XENOPUS; XENOPUS PROTEINS;

EID: 0031901225     PISSN: 09501991     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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