A novel homeobox gene mediates the Dpp signal to establish functional specificity within target cells

Genes and Development

Volumn 12, Issue 17, 1998, Pages 2724-2734

  Nakagoshi, Hideki ^a,b   Hoshi, Minako ^a   Nabeshima, Yo Ichi ^a,d   Matsuzaki, Fumio ^a,c,e  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF NEUROSCIENCE   (Japan)

^b Precursory Res Embryonic Sci T

^c JAPAN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AGENCY   (Japan)

^d OSAKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^e TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Dpp; Functional specificity; Homeodomain; Midgut; Wg

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; DROSOPHILA; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE MUTATION; GENE TARGETING; HOMEOBOX; MIDGUT; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TARGET CELL; TISSUE DIFFERENTIATION; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

DROSOPHILA;

EID: 0032167471     PISSN: 08909369     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1101/gad.12.17.2724     Document Type: Article

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