Worniu, a snail family zinc-finger protein, is required for brain development in Drosophila

Developmental Dynamics

Volumn 231, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 379-386

  Ashraf, Shovon I ^a,c   Ganguly, Atish ^a   Roote, John ^b   Ip, Y Tony ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^c HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Brain development; Neuroblasts; Repressors; Snail; Worniu; Zinc fingers

Indexed keywords

RNA; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; WORNIU PROTEIN; ZINC FINGER PROTEIN;

ALLELE; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN DEVELOPMENT; BRAIN GANGLION; BRAIN STEM; CONTROLLED STUDY; DROSOPHILA; GENETIC COMPLEMENTATION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; HEMISPHERE; LARVAL DEVELOPMENT; LETHALITY; MUTANT; NEUROBLAST; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN TARGETING; RNA INTERFERENCE; TRANSGENE;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; BRAIN; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; DROSOPHILA PROTEINS; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; LARVA; PHENOTYPE; RNA INTERFERENCE; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; TRANSGENES; ZINC FINGERS;

GASTROPODA; HELIX POMATIA;

EID: 4544380304     PISSN: 10588388     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/dvdy.20130     Document Type: Article

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