Needs and targets for the multi sex combs gene product in Drosophila melanogaster

Genetics

Volumn 149, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 1823-1838

  Saget, Olivier ^a,c   Forquignon, Françoise ^a   Santamaria, Pedro ^a   Randsholt, Neel B ^a,b  

^a CNRS   (France)

^b CENTRE DE GÉNÉTIQUE MOLÉCULAIRE   (France)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GENE PRODUCT;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; GENE CONTROL; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; IMAGINAL DISC; LARVA; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ALLELES; ANIMALS; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; DROSOPHILA PROTEINS; FEMALE; GENE DELETION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; GENES, HOMEOBOX; GENES, INSECT; GENES, MHC CLASS II; INSECT PROTEINS; LARVA; MALE; MUTATION; PHENOTYPE;

DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; MELANOGASTER;

EID: 0031928371     PISSN: 00166731     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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