Identification of candidate downstream genes for the homeodomain transcription factor Labial in Drosophila through oligonucleotide-array transcript imaging

Genome Biology

Volumn 2, Issue 5, 2001, Pages

  Leemans, Ronny ^a   Loop, Thomas ^a   Egger, Boris ^a   He, Haiqiong ^a   Kammermeier, Lars ^a   Hartmann, Beate ^a   Certa, Ullrich ^b   Reichert, Heinrich ^a   Hirth, Frank ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BASEL   (Switzerland)

^b F HOFFMANN LA ROCHE LTD   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Candidate Target Gene; Drosophila Embryo; Homeodomain Transcription Factor; Homeotic Gene; Oligonucleotide Array

Indexed keywords

DROSOPHILA PROTEIN; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEIN; INSECT PROTEIN; LAB PROTEIN, DROSOPHILA; MESSENGER RNA; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIOSYNTHESIS; CELL CULTURE; DNA MICROARRAY; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; PHYSIOLOGY; PRENATAL DEVELOPMENT; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; TRANSGENIC ANIMAL;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; CELLS, CULTURED; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; DROSOPHILA PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEINS; INSECT PROTEINS; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE ARRAY SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, MESSENGER; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

EID: 0035229567     PISSN: 14747596     EISSN: 1474760X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/gb-2001-2-5-research0015     Document Type: Article

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