Loss of the ecdysteroid-inducible E75A orphan nuclear receptor uncouples molting from metamorphosis in Drosophila

Developmental Cell

Volumn 3, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 209-220

  Bialecki, Michael ^a   Shilton, Alycia ^b   Fichtenberg, Caroline ^b   Segraves, William A ^b   Thummel, Carl S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF UTAH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CELL NUCLEUS RECEPTOR; ECDYSTEROID; ISOPROTEIN; MUTANT PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEATH; DEVELOPMENTAL DISORDER; DROSOPHILA; FERTILITY; GENE AMPLIFICATION; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC CODE; LARVAL DEVELOPMENT; LIFE CYCLE; METAMORPHOSIS; MOLTING; NONHUMAN; NULL ALLELE; PHENOTYPE; POSITIVE FEEDBACK; PROTEIN DEPLETION; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FAMILY; PROTEIN FUNCTION;

ARACHNIDA; DROSOPHILA; HEXAPODA;

EID: 0036696845     PISSN: 15345807     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1534-5807(02)00204-6     Document Type: Article

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