Differential expression and function of the Drosophila Pax6 genes eyeless and twin of eyeless in embryonic central nervous system development

Mechanisms of Development

Volumn 103, Issue 1-2, 2001, Pages 71-78

  Kammermeier, Lars ^a   Leemans, Ronny ^a   Hirth, Frank ^a   Flister, Susanne ^a   Wenger, Urs ^a   Walldorf, Uwe ^b   Gehring, Walter J ^a   Reichert, Heinrich ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BASEL   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HOHENHEIM   (Germany)

Author keywords

Brain development; Central nervous system development; Confocal microscopy; Drosophila; Embryo; Evolution; Eyeless; Immunocytochemistry; Misexpression; Mutants; Neurogenesis; Pax genes; RNA interference; Twin of eyeless

Indexed keywords

ALLELE; ARTICLE; BRAIN; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM; DROSOPHILA; EMBRYO; EYE DEVELOPMENT; EYE DISEASE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; IMMUNOCYTOCHEMISTRY; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; NERVOUS SYSTEM DEVELOPMENT; NEUROMERE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN EXPRESSION;

ALLELES; ANIMALS; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM; CROSSES, GENETIC; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; DROSOPHILA; DROSOPHILA PROTEINS; EYE PROTEINS; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEINS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; MICROSCOPY, CONFOCAL; PAIRED BOX TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; REPRESSOR PROTEINS; RNA, DOUBLE-STRANDED; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION; TRANS-ACTIVATORS;

EID: 0035023836     PISSN: 09254773     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0925-4773(01)00328-8     Document Type: Article

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