Gene Regulation: Boundaries within Limits

Current Biology

Volumn 18, Issue 15, 2008, Pages

  Payankaulam, Sandhya ^a   Arnosti, David N ^a  

^a Michigan State University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

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

ANIMAL; ANIMAL EMBRYO; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; DROSOPHILA; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MORPHOGENESIS; PHYSIOLOGY; PRENATAL DEVELOPMENT; SHORT SURVEY;

ANIMALS; BODY PATTERNING; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; DROSOPHILA; DROSOPHILA PROTEINS; EMBRYO, NONMAMMALIAN; EMBRYONIC DEVELOPMENT; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEINS; MODELS, GENETIC; TRANS-ACTIVATORS; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

EID: 48049091379     PISSN: 09609822     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2008.06.040     Document Type: Short Survey

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