Lethal of Scute requires overexpression of Daughterless to elicit ectopic neuronal development during embryogenesis in Drosophila

Mechanisms of Development

Volumn 63, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 75-87

  Giebel, Bernd ^a   Stüttem, Isabella ^a   Hinz, Uwe ^a   Campos Ortega, José A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLOGNE   (Germany)

Author keywords

Daughterless; Drosophila; Ga14 system; Lethal of scute; Neurogenesis; Proneural genes

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DROSOPHILA; EMBRYO; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; GENE ACTIVATION; GENE CONTROL; GENE EXPRESSION; LETHAL GENE; NERVE CELL; NERVOUS SYSTEM DEVELOPMENT; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STEM CELL;

ANIMALS; BASIC HELIX-LOOP-HELIX TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; CHROMOSOME MAPPING; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; DROSOPHILA PROTEINS; EMBRYONIC INDUCTION; FUNGAL PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; GENES, INSECT; HELIX-LOOP-HELIX MOTIFS; INSECT HORMONES; NERVOUS SYSTEM; NEURONS; NUCLEAR PROTEINS; RECOMBINANT FUSION PROTEINS; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE PROTEINS; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

EID: 0342506469     PISSN: 09254773     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0925-4773(97)00029-4     Document Type: Article

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