The Drosophila gene brinker reveals a novel mechanism of Dpp target gene regulation

Cell

Volumn 96, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 563-573

  Jaźwińska, Anna ^a   Kirov, Nikolai ^b   Wieschaus, Eric ^c   Roth, Siegfried ^a   Rushlow, Christine ^b  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY   (Germany)

^b NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; DROSOPHILA; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE TARGETING; GROWTH REGULATION; LIMB DEVELOPMENT; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; REPRESSOR GENE; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

DROSOPHILA;

EID: 0033582753     PISSN: 00928674     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0092-8674(00)80660-1     Document Type: Article

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