Specification of primary pigment cell and outer photoreceptor fates by BarH1 homeobox gene in the developing Drosophila eye

Developmental Biology

Volumn 200, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 131-145

  Hayashi, Takashi ^a   Kojima, Tetsuya ^a   Saigo, Kaoru ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

BarH1; Drosophila; Homeobox gene; Photoreceptor; Primary pigment cell; Ras MAPK pathway

Indexed keywords

MITOGEN ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE;

ARTICLE; CELL TRANSFORMATION; DROSOPHILA; EYE DEVELOPMENT; GENE ACTIVITY; GENE EXPRESSION; HISTOLOGY; NONHUMAN; ONCOGENE RAS; PHOTORECEPTOR; PIGMENT CELL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN INTERACTION; RECOMBINANT PLASMID; RETINA CONE; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

DROSOPHILA; INVERTEBRATA;

EID: 0032529684     PISSN: 00121606     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/dbio.1998.8959     Document Type: Article

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