Engrailed and polyhomeotic maintain posterior cell identity through cubitus-interruptus regulation

Developmental Biology

Volumn 272, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 522-535

  Chanas, Grégory ^a   Lavrov, Sergey ^a   Iral, Florence ^a   Cavalli, Giacomo ^a   Maschat, Florence ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF HUMAN GENETICS   (France)

Author keywords

Antero posterior identities; Cubitus interruptus; Drosophila; Engrailed; Polyhomeotic

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CELL COMPARTMENTALIZATION; CHROMATIN; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMBRYO; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; GENE CONTROL; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENE REPRESSION; GENETIC CODE; GENOME; HEDGEHOG; IMMUNOPRECIPITATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ERINACEIDAE;

EID: 3342946763     PISSN: 00121606     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ydbio.2004.05.020     Document Type: Article

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