Autoregulation of the Drosophila disconnected gene in the developing visual system

Developmental Biology

Volumn 214, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 385-398

  Lee, Kevin J ^a,c   Mukhopadhyay, Mahua ^b   Pelka, Peter ^b   Campos, Ana Regina ^b   Steller, Hermann ^a  

^a HOWARD HUGHES MEDICAL INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^c Columbia University ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Autoregulation; Drosophila melanogaster; Gene expression; Neural development; Zinc finger proteins

Indexed keywords

GENE PRODUCT; MESSENGER RNA; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; ZINC FINGER PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; AUTOREGULATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DROSOPHILA; GENE CONSTRUCT; GENE CONTROL; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE FUNCTION; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; NONHUMAN; OPTIC LOBE; OPTIC NERVE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPORTER GENE; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; VISUAL SYSTEM;

ARACHNIDA; DROSOPHILA; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; HEXAPODA; MELANOGASTER;

EID: 0033569917     PISSN: 00121606     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/dbio.1999.9420     Document Type: Article

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