Nessy, an evolutionary conserved gene controlled by Hox proteins during Drosophila embryogenesis

Mechanisms of Development

Volumn 86, Issue 1-2, 1999, Pages 159-163

  Maurel Zaffran, Corinne ^a   Chauvet, Sophie ^a   Jullien, Nicolas ^a   Miassod, Raymond ^a   Pradel, Jacques ^a   Aragnol, Denise ^a  

^a AIX MARSEILLE UNIVERSITÉ   (France)

Author keywords

Drosophila embryogenesis; Hox proteins; Phylogenetic conservation; Transmembrane domains; Visceral mesoderm

Indexed keywords

MEMBRANE PROTEIN;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DROSOPHILA; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; ENDODERM; GASTRULATION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; MESODERM; NONHUMAN; PHYLOGENY; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CONSERVED SEQUENCE; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; DROSOPHILA; DROSOPHILA PROTEINS; EMBRYO, NONMAMMALIAN; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEINS; HUMANS; MALE; MEMBRANE PROTEINS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS;

EID: 0032773202     PISSN: 09254773     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0925-4773(99)00105-7     Document Type: Article

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