Identification of maverick, a novel member of the TGF-β superfamily in Drosophila

Mechanisms of Development

Volumn 95, Issue 1-2, 2000, Pages 201-206

  Nguyen, Minh ^a   Parker, Louise ^a   Arora, Kavita ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Activin; Bone morphogenetic proteins; Drosophila; Transforming growth factor

Indexed keywords

ACTIVIN; BONE MORPHOGENETIC PROTEIN; LIGAND; MESSENGER RNA; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR BETA;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; BLASTODERM; CHROMOSOME MAP; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEVELOPMENT; DNA SEQUENCE; DROSOPHILA; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE ISOLATION; GENETIC CODE; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; INTESTINE; MESODERM; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; PHYLOGENY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FAMILY; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CLONING, MOLECULAR; DNA, COMPLEMENTARY; DROSOPHILA; DROSOPHILA PROTEINS; GENES, INSECT; INSECT PROTEINS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR BETA;

EID: 0034234631     PISSN: 09254773     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0925-4773(00)00338-5     Document Type: Article

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