How Drosophila appendages develop

Nature Reviews Molecular Cell Biology

Volumn 2, Issue 2, 2001, Pages 89-97

  Morata, Ginés ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD AUTÓNOMA DE MADRID   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

VERTEBRATA;

ANIMAL; DROSOPHILA; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; HOMEOBOX; REVIEW;

ANIMALS; DROSOPHILA; GENES, HOMEOBOX;

EID: 0035256760     PISSN: 14710072     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/35052047     Document Type: Review

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