Predicting expression patterns from regulatory sequence in Drosophila segmentation

Nature

Volumn 451, Issue 7178, 2008, Pages 535-540

  Segal, Eran ^a   Raveh Sadka, Tali ^a   Schroeder, Mark ^b   Unnerstall, Ulrich ^b   Gaul, Ulrike ^b  

^a WEIZMANN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (Israel)

^b ROCKEFELLER UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

DNA; FLY; GENE EXPRESSION; MODELING; MUTATION; PREDICTION; REGULATORY APPROACH; THERMODYNAMICS;

ARTICLE; BINDING SITE; DNA BINDING; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; EMBRYO SEGMENTATION; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DNA INTERACTION; THERMODYNAMICS;

DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; METAZOA;

EID: 38749127589     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature06496     Document Type: Article

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