Torso signalling regulates terminal patterning in Drosophila by antagonising Groucho-mediated repression

Development

Volumn 124, Issue 19, 1997, Pages 3827-3834

  Paroush, Ze'ev ^a,b   Mark Wainwright, S ^a   Ish Horowicz, David ^a  

^a IMPERIAL CANCER RESEARCH FUND   (United Kingdom)

^b HEBREW UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

Drosophila; Gap genes; Groucho; Repression; Tailless; Terminal patterning; Torso signalling

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; DEVELOPMENTAL GENETICS; DNA BINDING; EMBRYO; EMBRYO PATTERN FORMATION; EMBRYO SEGMENTATION; GENE REPRESSION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPRESSOR GENE;

ABDOMEN; ANIMALS; BASIC HELIX-LOOP-HELIX TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; BODY PATTERNING; CROSSES, GENETIC; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; DROSOPHILA; DROSOPHILA PROTEINS; EMBRYO, NONMAMMALIAN; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; GENES, INSECT; INSECT HORMONES; MALE; MUTAGENESIS; RECEPTOR PROTEIN-TYROSINE KINASES; REPRESSOR PROTEINS; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; ZINC FINGERS; ZYGOTE;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 1842377431     PISSN: 09501991     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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