Probing Intrinsic Properties of a Robust Morphogen Gradient in Drosophila

Developmental Cell

Volumn 15, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 558-567

  He, Feng ^a,b   Wen, Ying ^a   Deng, Jingyuan ^a,c   Lin, Xiaodong ^d   Lu, Long Jason ^a,c   Jiao, Renjie ^b   Ma, Jun ^a  

^a CINCINNATI CHILDREN S HOSPITAL RESEARCH FOUNDATION   (United States)

^b INSTITUTE OF BIOPHYSICS   (China)

^c University of Cincinnati   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI   (United States)

Author keywords

DEVBIO; SYSBIO

Indexed keywords

BICOID PROTEIN; HUNCHBACK PROTEIN; MORPHOGEN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DROSOPHILA; EMBRYO; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; EMBRYO PATTERN FORMATION; FEMALE; INSECT DEVELOPMENT; MORPHOGENESIS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; REPRODUCIBILITY;

ANIMALS; BODY PATTERNING; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; DROSOPHILA; EMBRYO, NONMAMMALIAN; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEINS; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEINS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; REPRESSOR PROTEINS; RNA-BINDING PROTEINS; TRANS-ACTIVATORS;

EID: 53249149490     PISSN: 15345807     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.devcel.2008.09.004     Document Type: Article

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