Ultrabithorax regulates genes at several levels of the wing-patterning hierarchy to shape the development of the Drosophila haltere

Genes and Development

Volumn 12, Issue 10, 1998, Pages 1474-1482

  Weatherbee, Scott D ^a   Halder, Georg ^a   Kim, Jaeseob ^a   Hudson, Angela ^a   Carroll, Sean ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

Development; Drosophila; Haltere; Serial homology; Ultrabithorax

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; DROSOPHILA; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; GENE CONTROL; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE REPRESSION; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MORPHOGENESIS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY;

ANIMALIA; ARACHNIDA; ARTHROPODA; DROSOPHILA; HEXAPODA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 0032523883     PISSN: 08909369     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1101/gad.12.10.1474     Document Type: Article

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