Half a century of neural prepatterning: The story of a few bristles and many genes

Nature Reviews Neuroscience

Volumn 4, Issue 7, 2003, Pages 587-598

  Gómez Skarmeta, José Luis ^a   Campuzano, Sonsoles ^a   Modolell, Juan ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD AUTÓNOMA DE MADRID   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACHAETE PROTEIN, DROSOPHILA; BASIC HELIX LOOP HELIX TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; DNA BINDING PROTEIN; DROSOPHILA PROTEIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; BONE MORPHOGENETIC PROTEIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR GATA 1; WNT PROTEIN;

ANIMAL; DROSOPHILA; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; MORPHOGENESIS; NERVOUS SYSTEM; PRENATAL DEVELOPMENT; REVIEW; GENE CONTROL; GENE FUNCTION; GENE IDENTIFICATION; HOMEOBOX; NERVE CELL; NERVE CELL DIFFERENTIATION; NEUROEPITHELIUM; NONHUMAN; NOTOCHORD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN MOTIF;

ANIMALS; BASIC HELIX-LOOP-HELIX TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; BODY PATTERNING; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; DROSOPHILA; DROSOPHILA PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; NERVOUS SYSTEM; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

EID: 0043209361     PISSN: 1471003X     EISSN: 14710048     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrn1142     Document Type: Article

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