Vestigial expression in the Drosophila embryonic central nervous system

Developmental Dynamics

Volumn 237, Issue 9, 2008, Pages 2483-2489

  Guss, Kirsten A ^a   Mistry, Hemlata ^a,b   Skeath, James B ^b  

^a DICKINSON COLLEGE   (United States)

^b WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Central nervous system; CNS; Drosophila; Embryo; Midline; Neuroblast; Ventral nerve cord; Vestigial; VNC

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL TRANSFER; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM; DROSOPHILA; EMBRYO; GENE; GENE EXPRESSION; INTERNEURON; MOTONEURON; NEUROBLAST; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VENTRAL ROOT; VESTIGIAL GENE;

ANIMALS; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM; DROSOPHILA; DROSOPHILA PROTEINS; EMBRYO, NONMAMMALIAN; FLUORESCENT ANTIBODY TECHNIQUE; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; NEURONS; NUCLEAR PROTEINS;

EID: 51549104471     PISSN: 10588388     EISSN: 10970177     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/dvdy.21664     Document Type: Article

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