Signal Integration during Development: Insights from the Drosophila Eye

Developmental Dynamics

Volumn 229, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 162-175

  Voas, Matthew G ^a,b   Rebay, Ilaria ^a  

^a WHITEHEAD INSTITUTE FOR BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH   (United States)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Cell fate specification; Development; Developmental timing; Drosophila; Notch, signal integration; Patterning; Ras; Receptor tyrosine kinase; Signal transduction; Transcription factor

Indexed keywords

JANUS KINASE; NOTCH RECEPTOR; PROTEIN TYROSINE KINASE; STAT PROTEIN; WNT1 PROTEIN;

CELL COMMUNICATION; CELL FATE; DROSOPHILA; EPITHELIUM; EYE DEVELOPMENT; HEDGEHOG; HUMAN; INTEGRATION; INVERTEBRATE; MOSAICISM; NONHUMAN; PHOTORECEPTOR; PIGMENT CELL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETINA CONE; REVIEW; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

ANIMALS; DROSOPHILA; DROSOPHILA PROTEINS; EYE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; GENES, INSECT; MEMBRANE PROTEINS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; NERVE TISSUE PROTEINS; NUCLEAR PROTEINS; PHOTORECEPTORS, INVERTEBRATE; RECEPTOR PROTEIN-TYROSINE KINASES; RECEPTOR, EPIDERMAL GROWTH FACTOR; RECEPTORS, NOTCH; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

ERINACEIDAE; INVERTEBRATA; MAMMALIA;

EID: 0347417016     PISSN: 10588388     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/dvdy.10449     Document Type: Review

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