Cross-regulatory interactions among tracheal genes support a co- operative model for the induction of tracheal fates in the Drosophila embryo

Mechanisms of Development

Volumn 91, Issue 1-2, 2000, Pages 271-278

  Boube, Muriel ^a   Llimargas, Marta ^a   Casanova, Jordi ^a  

^a INSTITUT DE BIOLOGIA MOLECULAR DE BARCELONA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Breathless; Drosophila; Tracheal induction; Trachealess; Ventral veinless

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; DNA FLANKING REGION; DROSOPHILA; EMBRYO; GENE ACTIVITY; GENE CONTROL; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE INDUCTION; LUNG DEVELOPMENT; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TRACHEA;

ANIMALS; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; DOWN-REGULATION; DROSOPHILA; DROSOPHILA PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEINS; INSECT PROTEINS; MEMBRANE PROTEINS; NUCLEAR PROTEINS; POU DOMAIN FACTORS; PROTEIN-TYROSINE KINASES; RECEPTORS, FIBROBLAST GROWTH FACTOR; REPRESSOR PROTEINS; TRACHEA; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

HEXAPODA;

EID: 0034003215     PISSN: 09254773     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0925-4773(99)00315-9     Document Type: Article

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