Polycomb genes interact with the tumor suppressor genes hippo and warts in the maintenance of Drosophila sensory neuron dendrites

Genes and Development

Volumn 21, Issue 8, 2007, Pages 956-972

  Parrish, Jay Z ^a   Emoto, Kazuo ^a,b   Jan, Lily Yeh ^a   Jan, Yuh Nung ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF GENETICS   (Japan)

Author keywords

Dendrite; Drosophila; Homeobox; Neuron; Polycomb; Tumor suppressor

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CELL FUNCTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DENDRITE; DROSOPHILA; EMBRYO; GENE; GENE INTERACTION; GENE MUTATION; HIPPO GENE; HOMEOBOX; INSECT DEVELOPMENT; INSECT GENETICS; MALE; MOLECULAR CLONING; NERVE FIBER; NONHUMAN; PCG GENE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RNA INTERFERENCE; SENSORY NERVE CELL; SENSORY NERVE CONDUCTION; TUMOR SUPPRESSOR GENE; WARTS GENE;

ANIMALS; DENDRITES; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; DROSOPHILA PROTEINS; GENES, INSECT; GENES, TUMOR SUPPRESSOR; NEURONS, AFFERENT; PROTEIN KINASES; PROTEIN-SERINE-THREONINE KINASES;

EID: 34247225988     PISSN: 08909369     EISSN: 15495477     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1101/gad.1514507     Document Type: Article

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