Regulation of axon guidance by slit and netrin signaling in the drosophila ventral nerve cord

Genetics

Volumn 176, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 2235-2246

  Bhat, Krishna Moorthi ^a   Gaziova, Ivana ^a   Krishnan, Smitha ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MEDICAL BRANCH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MESSENGER RNA; NETRIN; ROUNDABOUT RECEPTOR; SLIT PROTEIN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DROSOPHILA; EGG PRODUCTION; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; GENETIC EPISTASIS; GROWTH REGULATION; HOMOZYGOSITY; INSECT DEVELOPMENT; MUTANT; NERVE FIBER; NERVE FIBER GROWTH; NERVE TRACT; NONHUMAN; NULL ALLELE; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PUPA (LIFE CYCLE STAGE); VENTRAL ROOT;

ANIMALS; AXONAL TRANSPORT; AXONS; BASE SEQUENCE; BASIC HELIX-LOOP-HELIX TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; DNA PRIMERS; DROSOPHILA; DROSOPHILA PROTEINS; EPISTASIS, GENETIC; FEMALE; GENES, INSECT; MALE; MUTATION; NERVE TISSUE PROTEINS; NERVOUS SYSTEM; PHENOTYPE; RECEPTORS, CELL SURFACE; RECEPTORS, IMMUNOLOGIC; REPRESSOR PROTEINS; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

EID: 34548440745     PISSN: 00166731     EISSN: 00166731     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1534/genetics.107.075085     Document Type: Article

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