Pleiotropic functions of a conserved insect-specific Hox peptide motif

Development

Volumn 132, Issue 23, 2005, Pages 5261-5270

  Hittinger, Chris Todd ^a   Stern, David L ^b   Carroll, Sean B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^b PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Abdominal tergite; Allelic replacement; Distal less; Evolution; Gene targeting; Homologous recombination; Hox; Laterotergite; Limb; Peptide motif; Postnotal; Trichome; Ultrabithorax

Indexed keywords

HOX PROTEIN; PROTEIN ABDOMINAL A; PROTEIN ULTRABITHORAX; REGULATOR PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; EMBRYO; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; GENE DELETION; GENE LOCUS; GENE REPRESSION; GENETIC CONSERVATION; HOMOZYGOTE; INSECT GENETICS; LIMB BUD; LIMB DEVELOPMENT; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PHENOTYPIC VARIATION; PLEIOTROPY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN MOTIF; PROTEIN PURIFICATION; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS;

AMINO ACID MOTIFS; ANIMALS; CONSERVED SEQUENCE; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; DROSOPHILA PROTEINS; EXTREMITIES; GENES, HOMEOBOX; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEINS; PHENOTYPE; SEQUENCE DELETION; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

ANIMALIA; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; INSECTA;

EID: 29644443255     PISSN: 09501991     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1242/dev.02146     Document Type: Article

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