The role of brinker in mediating the graded response to Dpp in early Drosophila embryos

Development

Volumn 126, Issue 15, 1999, Pages 3323-3334

  Jaźwińska, Anna ^a   Rushlow, Christine ^b   Roth, Siegfried ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLOGNE   (Germany)

^b NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Brinker; Dpp target genes; Drosophila melanogaster; Neuroectoderm; Sog; Transcriptional repression

Indexed keywords

BONE MORPHOGENETIC PROTEIN; DNA BINDING PROTEIN;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; DEVELOPMENTAL GENETICS; DROSOPHILA; EMBRYO; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; GASTRULATION; GENE TARGETING; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

ANIMALS; BODY PATTERNING; DROSOPHILA; DROSOPHILA PROTEINS; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; GENES, INSECT; INSECT PROTEINS; MALE; MUTATION; PHENOTYPE; REPRESSOR PROTEINS; RNA, MESSENGER; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

EID: 0344979753     PISSN: 09501991     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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