Morphogens: Precise outputs from a variable gradient

Current Biology

Volumn 16, Issue 1, 2006, Pages

  Yucel, Gozde ^a   Small, Stephen ^a  

^a NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BICOID PROTEIN, DROSOPHILA; DNA BINDING PROTEIN; DROSOPHILA PROTEIN; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEIN; HUNCHBACK PROTEIN, DROSOPHILA; TRANSACTIVATOR PROTEIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

ANIMAL; DROSOPHILA; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; METABOLISM; MORPHOGENESIS; PRENATAL DEVELOPMENT; SHORT SURVEY;

ANIMALS; BODY PATTERNING; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; DROSOPHILA; DROSOPHILA PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEINS; TRANS-ACTIVATORS; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

EID: 30044433054     PISSN: 09609822     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2005.12.005     Document Type: Short Survey

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