Domina (Dom), a new Drosophila member of the FKH/WH gene family, affects morphogenesis and is a suppressor of position-effect variegation

Mechanisms of Development

Volumn 96, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 67-78

  Strödicke, Martin ^a   Karberg, Sascha ^a   Korge, Günter ^a  

^a FREIE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Chromatin; Fork head; Position effect; Transcription factor; Winged helix

Indexed keywords

TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; CHROMATIN; DROSOPHILA; GENE STRUCTURE; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; MORPHOGENESIS; MULTIGENE FAMILY; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; POLYADENYLATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN STRUCTURE;

ALLELES; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; CELL NUCLEUS; CHROMATIN; CHROMOSOMES; DNA, COMPLEMENTARY; DROSOPHILA; FEMALE; FORKHEAD TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; HETEROZYGOTE; HOMOZYGOTE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; MALE; MODELS, GENETIC; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTAGENESIS; MUTATION; NUCLEAR PROTEINS; PHENOTYPE; PHOTORECEPTORS, INVERTEBRATE; PIGMENTATION; POLY A; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; RNA; RNA, MESSENGER; SALIVARY GLANDS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; SEX FACTORS; TIME FACTORS; TRANS-ACTIVATION (GENETICS); TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; WING;

EID: 0343090418     PISSN: 09254773     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0925-4773(00)00371-3     Document Type: Article

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