Dominant Drop mutants are gain-of-function alleles of the muscle segment homeobox gene (msh) whose overexpression leads to the arrest of eye development

Developmental Biology

Volumn 233, Issue 2, 2001, Pages 380-393

  Mozer, Brian A ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF NEUROLOGICAL DISORDERS AND STROKE   (United States)

Author keywords

Drop; Drosophila; Eye development; Gain of function mutation; Morphogenetic furrow; msh

Indexed keywords

GENE PRODUCT; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEIN; PROTEIN MSH; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ALLELISM; ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; EYE DEVELOPMENT; GENE OVEREXPRESSION; HOMEOBOX; MOLECULAR CLONING; MOLECULAR GENETICS; MULTIGENE FAMILY; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REGULATOR GENE;

VERTEBRATA;

EID: 0035873451     PISSN: 00121606     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/dbio.2001.0229     Document Type: Article

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