The odor specificities of a subset of olfactory receptor neurons are governed by Acj6, a POU-domain transcription factor

Neuron

Volumn 22, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 339-347

  Clyne, Peter J ^a   Certel, Sarah J ^b   De Bruyne, Marien ^a   Zaslavsky, Lina ^a   Johnson, Wayne A ^b   Carlson, John R ^a  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

ALLELE; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; EMBRYO; GENE; GENE STRUCTURE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; NONHUMAN; ODOR; OLFACTORY SYSTEM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

EID: 0033083762     PISSN: 08966273     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0896-6273(00)81094-6     Document Type: Article

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