bicoid occurrence and Bicoid-dependent hunchback regulation in lower cyclorrhaphan flies

Evolution and Development

Volumn 10, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 413-420

  Lemke, Steffen ^a   Stauber, Michael ^b,c   Shaw, Philip J ^b,d   Rafiqi, Ab Matteen ^a   Prell, Alexander ^b   Schmidt Ott, Urs ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR BIOPHYSICAL CHEMISTRY   (Germany)

^c IMPERIAL CANCER RESEARCH FUND   (United Kingdom)

^d NATIONAL SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY DEVELOPMENT AGENCY   (Thailand)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BICOID PROTEIN, DROSOPHILA; DNA BINDING PROTEIN; DROSOPHILA PROTEIN; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEIN; HUNCHBACK PROTEIN, DROSOPHILA; INSECT PROTEIN; TRANSACTIVATOR PROTEIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

ANCESTRY; EMBRYO; EVOLUTION; FLY; GENE EXPRESSION; GENOME; INSECT; MORPHOGENESIS; PROTEIN;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL; ANIMAL EMBRYO; ARTICLE; BINDING SITE; BLASTODERM; DROSOPHILA; FLY; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MOLECULAR GENETICS; PHYLOGENY; PHYSIOLOGY; PRENATAL DEVELOPMENT; PROMOTER REGION; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; TRANSGENIC ANIMAL;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; ANIMALS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; BINDING SITES; BLASTODERM; DIPTERA; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; DROSOPHILA; DROSOPHILA PROTEINS; EMBRYO, NONMAMMALIAN; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEINS; INSECT PROTEINS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; TRANS-ACTIVATORS; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

HEXAPODA; LONCHOPTERIDAE; MUSCOMORPHA; PHORIDAE; PLATYPEZIDAE; SCHIZOPHORA;

EID: 47249140764     PISSN: 1520541X     EISSN: 1525142X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1525-142X.2008.00252.x     Document Type: Article

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