Activation of posterior pair-rule stripe expression in response to maternal caudal and zygotic knirps activities

Mechanisms of Development

Volumn 71, Issue 1-2, 1998, Pages 177-186

  Häder, Thomas ^a   La Rosée, Anna ^a   Ziebold, Ulrike ^a   Busch, Maximilian ^a   Taubert, Heike ^a   Jäckle, Herbert ^a   Rivera Pomar, Rolando ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR BIOPHYSICAL CHEMISTRY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Caudal; Drosophila; Hairy; Knirps; Pair rule genes; Segmentation

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BLASTODERM; DEVELOPMENTAL GENETICS; EMBRYO; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; GENE ACTIVATION; GENE ACTIVITY; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE REPRESSION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; ZYGOTE;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; BINDING SITES; BODY PATTERNING; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; DROSOPHILA; DROSOPHILA PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEINS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; ZINC FINGERS; ZYGOTE;

HEXAPODA;

EID: 0032008039     PISSN: 09254773     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0925-4773(98)00014-8     Document Type: Article

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