Twin of eyeless, a second Pax-6 gene of Drosophila, acts upstream of eyeless in the control of eye development

Molecular Cell

Volumn 3, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 297-307

  Czerny, Thomas ^a,c   Halder, Georg ^b,d   Kloter, Urs ^b   Souabni, Abdallah ^a   Gehring, Walter J ^b   Busslinger, Meinrad ^a  

^a RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF MOLECULAR PATHOLOGY   (Austria)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BASEL   (Switzerland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF VETERINARY MEDICINE   (Austria)

^d UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA BINDING PROTEIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DROSOPHILA; EMBRYO; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; ENHANCER REGION; EVOLUTION; EYE DEVELOPMENT; GENE CONTROL; GENE DUPLICATION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE TARGETING; GENETIC CONSERVATION; NONHUMAN;

EID: 0033105606     PISSN: 10972765     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1097-2765(00)80457-8     Document Type: Article

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