Growth and specification of the eye are controlled independently by Eyegone and Eyeless in Drosophila melanogaster

Nature Genetics

Volumn 36, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 31-39

  Dominguez, Maria ^a   Ferres Marco, Dolors ^a   Gutierrez Aviño, Francisco J ^a   Speicher, Stephan A ^a   Beneyto, Monica ^a,b  

^a MIGUEL HERNÁNDEZ UNIVERSITY   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NOTCH RECEPTOR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR PAX6;

ARTICLE; CARCINOGENICITY; CHROMOSOME NOR; DNA BINDING; DNA SPLICING; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; EY GENE; EYE DEVELOPMENT; EYG GENE; GENE; GENE OVEREXPRESSION; GROWTH REGULATION; HUMAN; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PAX6 GENE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTO ONCOGENE; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TISSUE GROWTH; TISSUE SPECIFICITY; TOY GENE;

ANIMALS; BODY PATTERNING; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; DROSOPHILA PROTEINS; EYE; EYE PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; GENES, INSECT; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEINS; MEMBRANE PROTEINS; PAIRED BOX TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; PROTEIN ISOFORMS; RECEPTORS, NOTCH; REPRESSOR PROTEINS; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; HEXAPODA; MELANOGASTER;

EID: 0345824716     PISSN: 10614036     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ng1281     Document Type: Article

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