Multiple roles of the eyes absent gene in Drosophila

Developmental Biology

Volumn 196, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 42-57

  Bonini, Nancy M ^a   Leiserson, William M ^b,c   Benzer, Seymour ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^c YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Embryogenesis; Morphogenesis; Nucleoplasmic protein

Indexed keywords

GENE PRODUCT;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL DEATH; CONTROLLED STUDY; DROSOPHILA; EMBRYO; EYE DEVELOPMENT; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE MUTATION; HEAD; MORPHOGENESIS; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ANIMALIA; DROSOPHILA; HEXAPODA; INSECTA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 0032054877     PISSN: 00121606     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/dbio.1997.8845     Document Type: Article

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