Pattern formation: Wingless on the move

Current Biology

Volumn 10, Issue 6, 2000, Pages R222-R226

  Howes, Robert ^a   Bray, Sarah ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DROSOPHILA PROTEIN; ONCOPROTEIN; WINGLESS PROTEIN, DROSOPHILA;

ANIMAL; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; METABOLISM; PRENATAL DEVELOPMENT; REVIEW; TRANSPORT AT THE CELLULAR LEVEL;

ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL TRANSPORT; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; DROSOPHILA PROTEINS; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS;

ANIMALIA; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; HEXAPODA; MELANOGASTER;

EID: 0034704783     PISSN: 09609822     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0960-9822(00)00377-8     Document Type: Review

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