Six class homeobox genes in Drosophila belong to three distinct families and are involved in head development

Mechanisms of Development

Volumn 83, Issue 1-2, 1999, Pages 127-139

  Seo, Hee Chan ^a   Curtiss, Jennifer ^b   Mlodzik, Marek ^b   Fjose, Anders ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN   (Norway)

^b EUROPEAN MOLECULAR BIOLOGY LABORATORY   (Germany)

Author keywords

C. elegans; Homeodomain; Phylogenetic analysis; Sensory organs; Zebrafish

Indexed keywords

HOMEODOMAIN PROTEIN;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DROSOPHILA; EMBRYO; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; GENE ISOLATION; HEAD; HOMEOBOX; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; ZEBRA FISH;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; DROSOPHILA; DROSOPHILA PROTEINS; EMBRYO; EMBRYO, NONMAMMALIAN; EYE PROTEINS; GENES, HOMEOBOX; HEAD; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEINS; MICE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MORPHOGENESIS; MULTIGENE FAMILY; NERVE TISSUE PROTEINS; PHYLOGENY; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION; TRANS-ACTIVATORS; ZEBRAFISH; ZEBRAFISH PROTEINS;

ANIMALIA; DANIO RERIO; HEXAPODA; INSECTA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 0032967569     PISSN: 09254773     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0925-4773(99)00045-3     Document Type: Article

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