The Drosophila homeobox gene optix is capable of inducing ectopic eyes by an eyeless-independent mechanism

Development

Volumn 127, Issue 9, 2000, Pages 1879-1886

  Seimiya, Makiko ^a   Gehring, Walter J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BASEL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Drosophila; Eye development; Imaginal disc; optix; Six so family

Indexed keywords

HOMEODOMAIN PROTEIN;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANOPHTHALMIA; ANTENNA; ARTICLE; DEVELOPMENTAL GENETICS; DROSOPHILA; ECTOPIC TISSUE; EMBRYO; EYE DEVELOPMENT; HOMEOBOX; IMAGINAL DISC; MULTIGENE FAMILY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; ANIMALS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; CHROMOSOME MAPPING; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; DROSOPHILA; DROSOPHILA PROTEINS; EYE; EYE ABNORMALITIES; EYE PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; GENES, HOMEOBOX; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEINS; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NERVE TISSUE PROTEINS; PHYLOGENY; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

ANIMALIA; ARACHNIDA; HEXAPODA;

EID: 0034023675     PISSN: 09501991     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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