Pre-steady-state decoding of the bicoid morphogen gradient

PLoS Biology

Volumn 5, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 0232-0242

  Bergmann, Sven ^a,b,c   Sandler, Oded ^a   Sberro, Hila ^a   Shnider, Sara ^a   Schejter, Eyal ^a   Shilo, Ben Zion ^a   Barkai, Naama ^a  

^a WEIZMANN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (Israel)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LAUSANNE   (Switzerland)

^c SWISS INSTITUTE OF BIOINFORMATICS   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MORPHOGEN; BICOID PROTEIN, DROSOPHILA; DROSOPHILA PROTEIN; GUANOSINE TRIPHOSPHATASE ACTIVATING PROTEIN; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEIN; TRANSACTIVATOR PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DROSOPHILA; EMBRYO; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION; NONHUMAN; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; REPORTER GENE; STEADY STATE; ANIMAL; ANIMAL EMBRYO; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CYTOLOGY; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; METABOLISM; MORPHOGENESIS; PHYSIOLOGY; PRENATAL DEVELOPMENT; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

ANIMALS; BODY PATTERNING; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; DROSOPHILA; DROSOPHILA PROTEINS; EMBRYO, NONMAMMALIAN; EMBRYONIC DEVELOPMENT; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; GENES, REPORTER; GTPASE-ACTIVATING PROTEINS; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEINS; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TRANS-ACTIVATORS;

EID: 33846958053     PISSN: 15449173     EISSN: 15457885     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0050046     Document Type: Article

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