Dynamic control of positional information in the early Drosophila embryo

Nature

Volumn 430, Issue 6997, 2004, Pages 368-371

  Jaeger, Johannes ^a   Surkova, Svellana ^b   Blagov, Maxim ^b   Janssens, Hilde ^a   Kosman, David ^c   Kozlov, Konstantin H ^b   Manu, ^a   Myasnikova, Ekaterina ^b   Vanario Alonso, Carlos E ^a,d   Samsonova, Maria ^b   Sharp, David H ^e   Reinitz, John ^a  

^a Stony Brook University   (United States)

^b PETER THE GREAT ST PETERSBURG POLYTECHNIC UNIVERSITY   (Russian Federation)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF RIO DE JANEIRO   (Brazil)

^e LOS ALAMOS NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DATA ACQUISITION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PROTEINS;

GAP PROTEINS; POSITIONAL INFORMATION;

GENES;

GENE PRODUCT; MORPHOGEN;

BIOLOGY;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BLASTODERM; CONTROLLED STUDY; DROSOPHILA; EMBRYO; GASTRULATION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE TARGETING; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; MORPHOGENESIS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DOMAIN; REGULATORY MECHANISM;

ANIMALS; BLASTODERM; BODY PATTERNING; DIFFUSION; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; DROSOPHILA PROTEINS; EMBRYO, NONMAMMALIAN; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; RNA, MESSENGER; TIME FACTORS;

ANIMALIA; HEXAPODA;

EID: 3142734333     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature02678     Document Type: Article

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