Persistence of Hunchback in the terminal region of the Drosophila blastoderm embryo impairs anterior development

Development

Volumn 127, Issue 8, 2000, Pages 1573-1582

  Janody, Florence ^a   Reischl, Joachim ^b   Dostatni, Nathalie ^a  

^a AIX MARSEILLE UNIVERSITÉ   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BAYREUTH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Bicoid morphogen; Drosophila; hunchback; Torso signal transduction cascade

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BLASTODERM; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEVELOPMENTAL GENETICS; DROSOPHILA; EMBRYO; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE REPRESSION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ANIMALS; BLASTODERM; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; DROSOPHILA; DROSOPHILA PROTEINS; EMBRYO, NONMAMMALIAN; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEINS; INSECT PROTEINS; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS; RECEPTOR PROTEIN-TYROSINE KINASES; REPRESSOR PROTEINS; TRANS-ACTIVATORS; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

ANIMALIA; ERINACEIDAE; MAMMALIA;

EID: 0034054752     PISSN: 09501991     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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