Drosophila Tbx6-related gene, Dorsocross, mediates high levels of Dpp and Scw signal required for the development of amnioserosa and wing disc primordium

Developmental Biology

Volumn 265, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 355-368

  Hamaguchi, Takashi ^a   Yabe, Shigeharu ^b   Uchiyama, Hideho ^b   Murakami, Ryutaro ^a  

^a YAMAGUCHI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b YOKOHAMA CITY UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Amnioserosa; BMP; Dorsocross; Dpp; Drosophila; pMad; Scw; Tbx6; Wing disc primordium; Xenopus

Indexed keywords

ACTIVIN; BONE MORPHOGENETIC PROTEIN 4; DEOXYCORTICOSTERONE; RNA; T BOX TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; BLASTODERM; CONTROLLED STUDY; DROSOPHILA; ECTODERM; EMBRYO; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; FORELIMB; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE TARGETING; LIMB DEVELOPMENT; MESODERM; MUTANT; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIMORDIUM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DOMAIN; RNA INTERFERENCE; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; VERTEBRATE; XENOPUS;

ANIMALIA; DROSOPHILA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 0346654064     PISSN: 00121606     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ydbio.2003.09.034     Document Type: Article

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