Evolution of an insect-specific GROUCHO-interaction motif in the ENGRAILED selector protein

Evolution and Development

Volumn 10, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 537-545

  Hittinger, Chris Todd ^a,b   Carroll, Sean B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^b WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BASIC HELIX LOOP HELIX TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; ENGRAIL PROTEIN, DROSOPHILA; GROUCHO PROTEIN, DROSOPHILA; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEIN; PRIMER DNA; REPRESSOR PROTEIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

FLY; GENETIC STRUCTURE; INSECT; MUTATION; PEPTIDE; PROTEIN; WING;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; GENETICS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; INSECT; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; BASIC HELIX-LOOP-HELIX TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; DNA PRIMERS; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEINS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; INSECTS; REPRESSOR PROTEINS; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

ANIMALIA; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; HEXAPODA;

EID: 51249120056     PISSN: 1520541X     EISSN: 1525142X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1525-142X.2008.00269.x     Document Type: Article

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