Evidence for a direct functional antagonism of the selector genes proboscipedia and eyeless in Drosophila head development

Development

Volumn 130, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 575-586

  Benassayag, Corrine ^a   Plaza, Serge ^b   Callaerts, Patrick ^c   Clements, Jason ^c   Romeo, Yves ^d   Gehring, Walter J ^b   Cribbs, David L ^a  

^a Institut d'Exploration Fonctionnelle des Genomes   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BASEL   (Switzerland)

^c University of Houston   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITÉ PAUL SABATIER   (France)

Author keywords

Differentiation; Hox; Maxillary palps; Pax6; Proboscipedia; Protein protein

Indexed keywords

HOMEODOMAIN PROTEIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

ALLELE; ANTENNA; CELL SUBPOPULATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; ENHANCER REGION; GENE ACTIVITY; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE FUNCTION; GENE INTERACTION; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC CODE; GENETIC TRANSFORMATION; IMAGINAL DISC; IN VITRO STUDY; IN VIVO STUDY; MORPHOGENESIS; NONHUMAN; OLFACTORY SYSTEM; PRIMORDIUM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; PUPATION; REGULATORY MECHANISM; REVIEW; TRANSACTIVATION;

ALLELES; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; DNA; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; DROSOPHILA; DROSOPHILA PROTEINS; EYE ABNORMALITIES; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; GENES, HOMEOBOX; GENES, INSECT; HEAD; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEINS; MALE; MAXILLA; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTATION; PHENOTYPE; TRANS-ACTIVATION (GENETICS); TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; TWO-HYBRID SYSTEM TECHNIQUES;

HEXAPODA;

EID: 0037323945     PISSN: 09501991     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1242/dev.00226     Document Type: Review

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