Anterior repression of a drosophila stripe enhancer requires three position-specific mechanisms

Development

Volumn 129, Issue 21, 2002, Pages 4931-4940

  Andrioli, Luiz Paulo Maura ^a   Visisht, Vikram ^a   Theodosopoulou, Ekaterina ^a   Oberstein, Adam ^a   Small, Stephen ^a  

^a NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Embryogenesis; Enhancer; Even Skipped; Patterning; Repression

Indexed keywords

BETA GALACTOSIDASE; DNA BINDING PROTEIN; GUANINE; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEIN; MORPHOGEN; THYMINE;

ARTICLE; BINDING SITE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOWN REGULATION; DROSOPHILA; EMBRYO; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; EMBRYO PATTERN FORMATION; ENHANCER REGION; GENE ACTIVATION; GENE DELETION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE REPRESSION; GENETIC ANALYSIS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS;

DROSOPHILA; HEXAPODA;

EID: 0036848430     PISSN: 09501991     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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