Separable stripe enhancer elements for the pair-rule gene hairy in the beetle Tribolium

EMBO Reports

Volumn 5, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 638-642

  Eckert, Christoph ^a   Aranda, Manuel ^a   Wolff, Christian ^b   Tautz, Diethard ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLOGNE   (Germany)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Gap genes; Germline transformation; Insects; Reporter gene constructs; Segmentation; Short germ band development

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; EMBRYO SEGMENTATION; ENHANCER REGION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE VECTOR; GENETIC REGULATION; GENETIC TRANSFORMATION; GERM LINE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPORTER GENE; TRIBOLIUM;

ANIMALS; BASIC HELIX-LOOP-HELIX TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; BETA-GALACTOSIDASE; EMBRYO, NONMAMMALIAN; ENHANCER ELEMENTS (GENETICS); GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; GENES, REPORTER; GERM-LINE MUTATION; INSECT PROTEINS; REPRESSOR PROTEINS; TRIBOLIUM;

COLEOPTERA; HEXAPODA;

EID: 4344631752     PISSN: 1469221X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/sj.embor.7400148     Document Type: Article

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