The Drosophila microRNA iab-4 causes a dominant homeotic transformation of halteres to wings

Genes and Development

Volumn 19, Issue 24, 2005, Pages 2947-2952

  Ronshaugen, Matthew ^a   Biemar, Frédéric ^a   Piel, Jessica ^a   Levine, Mike ^a   Lai, Eric C ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b MEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING CANCER CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Homeotic gene; Iab 4; microRNA; Ultrabithorax

Indexed keywords

MICRORNA;

3' UNTRANSLATED REGION; ARTICLE; DROSOPHILA; FORELIMB; GENE CLUSTER; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE INTERACTION; GENE LOCUS; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC ANALYSIS; HOMEOBOX; IN VIVO STUDY; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

3' UNTRANSLATED REGIONS; ANIMALS; DROSOPHILA; DROSOPHILA PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; GENES, INSECT; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEINS; MICRORNAS; MULTIGENE FAMILY; MUTATION; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; WING;

VERTEBRATA;

EID: 29144438977     PISSN: 08909369     EISSN: 15495477     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1101/gad.1372505     Document Type: Article

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