The proneural gene amos promotes multiple dendritic neuron formation in the Drosophila peripheral nervous system

Neuron

Volumn 25, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 57-67

  Huang, Min Lang ^a,b   Hsu, Chia Hsin ^a,b   Chien, Cheng Ting ^a,b  

^a NATIONAL YANG MING UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b INSTITUTE OF MOLECULAR BIOLOGY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HELIX LOOP HELIX PROTEIN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DROSOPHILA; ECTODERM; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; GENE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE FUNCTION; NERVE CELL DIFFERENTIATION; NERVOUS SYSTEM DEVELOPMENT; NONHUMAN; PERIPHERAL NERVOUS SYSTEM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PRONEURAL GENE; SENSE ORGAN;

DROSOPHILA;

EID: 0034026869     PISSN: 08966273     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0896-6273(00)80871-5     Document Type: Article

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