Identification of regulatory modules mediating specific expression of the roughest gene in Drosophila melanogaster

Development Genes and Evolution

Volumn 214, Issue 9, 2004, Pages 453-459

  Apitz, Holger ^a   Kambacheld, Melanie ^a   Höhne, Martin ^a   Ramos, Ricardo G P ^b   Straube, Angela ^a   Fischbach, Karl Friedrich ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Apoptosis; cis regulatory sequences; Drosophila melanogaster; Mesoderm; Roughest

Indexed keywords

CELL ADHESION MOLECULE; DROSOPHILA PROTEIN; IMMUNOGLOBULIN; PROTEIN ROUGHEST; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL TISSUE; APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DECISION MAKING; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; ENHANCER REGION; EYE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE FUNCTION; GENE IDENTIFICATION; INSECT; INSECT CELL; MESODERM; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PLEIOTROPY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FAMILY; REGULATOR GENE; REGULATORY SEQUENCE; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

ANIMALS; CELL ADHESION MOLECULES, NEURONAL; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; DROSOPHILA PROTEINS; EYE PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; GENES, REPORTER; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MESODERM; MICROSCOPY, CONFOCAL; PHYSICAL CHROMOSOME MAPPING; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION SITE;

DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; MELANOGASTER;

EID: 5744236789     PISSN: 0949944X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00427-004-0423-3     Document Type: Article

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