Common and diverged functions of the Drosophila gene pair D-Sp1 and buttonhead

Mechanisms of Development

Volumn 89, Issue 1-2, 1999, Pages 125-132

  Schöck, Frieder ^a   Purnell, Beverly A ^a   Wimmer, Ernst A ^b   Jäckle, Herbert ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR BIOPHYSICAL CHEMISTRY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BAYREUTH   (Germany)

Author keywords

BTD; Chordotonal organ; D Sp1; Peripheral nervous system; Zinc finger

Indexed keywords

PROTEIN; RNA; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR SP1; ZINC FINGER PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; DROSOPHILA; EMBRYO; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; GENE; GENE EXPRESSION; IMMUNOCYTOCHEMISTRY; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; DROSOPHILA; DROSOPHILA PROTEINS; EMBRYO, NONMAMMALIAN; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; HEAD; HUMANS; MANDIBLE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTATION; PERIPHERAL NERVOUS SYSTEM; SENSE ORGANS; SP1 TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; WING; ZINC FINGERS;

HEXAPODA;

EID: 0345148394     PISSN: 09254773     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0925-4773(99)00215-4     Document Type: Article

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