Two Pax genes, eye gone and eyeless, act cooperatively in promoting Drosophila eye development

Development

Volumn 130, Issue 13, 2003, Pages 2939-2951

  Jang, Chuen Chuen ^a,b   Chao, Ju Lan ^a,b   Jones, Nikolas ^c   Yao, Li Chin ^b   Bessarab, Dmitri A ^b   Kuo, Yien M ^c   Jun, Susie ^d   Desplan, Claude ^d,e   Beckendorf, Steven K ^c   Sun, Y Henry ^a,b  

^a NATIONAL YANG MING UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b INSTITUTE OF MOLECULAR BIOLOGY   (Taiwan)

^c University of California Berkeley   (United States)

^d ROCKEFELLER UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Drosophila; Eye development; Eye gone; Eyeless; Morphogenetic furrow; Pax gene

Indexed keywords

GENE PRODUCT; PROTEIN PAX; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL PROLIFERATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DROSOPHILA; EYE DEVELOPMENT; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENE INTERACTION; GENE MUTATION; MORPHOGENESIS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPTIC DISK; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

ANIMALS; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; DROSOPHILA PROTEINS; EMBRYONIC STRUCTURES; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; GENES, INSECT; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; PHENOTYPE; PHOTORECEPTORS, INVERTEBRATE; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC; TRANSGENES;

ANIMALIA; HEXAPODA; INSECTA;

EID: 0038105420     PISSN: 09501991     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1242/dev.00522     Document Type: Article

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