Chronicles of a switch hunt: gcm genes in development

Trends in Genetics

Volumn 17, Issue 5, 2001, Pages 286-290

  Wegner, Michael ^a   Riethmacher, Dieter ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN NUREMBERG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HAMBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

DNA BINDING; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; GENE; GENE FUNCTION; GENE STRUCTURE; GLIA CELL; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MORPHOGENESIS; NERVOUS SYSTEM DEVELOPMENT; NONHUMAN; PARATHYROID GLAND; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY;

ANIMALS; CONSERVED SEQUENCE; DNA; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; GROWTH; HUMANS; NERVOUS SYSTEM; NEUROPEPTIDES; PARATHYROID GLANDS; PLACENTA; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; TRANS-ACTIVATORS; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; MAMMALIA; MELANOGASTER;

EID: 0035339956     PISSN: 01689525     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0168-9525(01)02275-2     Document Type: Review

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