Digital three-dimensional models of Drosophila development

Current Opinion in Genetics and Development

Volumn 14, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 382-391

  Pereanu, Wayne ^a   Hartenstein, Volker ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

3D; DA1; DAL; DALv3; dorsoanterior 1 glomerulus of antenna lobe; dorsoanterior lateral group of secondary lineages; dorsoanterior lateral group, ventral 3 secondary lineage; GFP; green fluorescent protein; SPI; SuPerImposing; three dimensional

Indexed keywords

CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; DIGITAL COMPUTER; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; GENE CONSTRUCT; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENETIC MODEL; INSECT DEVELOPMENT; MEDICAL RESEARCH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

ANIMALS; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM; COMPUTER GRAPHICS; DATABASES, FACTUAL; DROSOPHILA; EMBRYONIC DEVELOPMENT; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; MODELS, ANATOMIC; MORPHOGENESIS;

ARACHNIDA; CAENORHABDITIS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; GLOMERULUS; HEXAPODA; INSECTA; MELANOGASTER;

EID: 3142630233     PISSN: 0959437X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.gde.2004.06.010     Document Type: Review

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