A double-edged sword to force posterior dominance of Hox genes

BioEssays

Volumn 30, Issue 11-12, 2008, Pages 1058-1061

  Singh, Narendra Pratap ^a   Mishra, Rakesh K ^a  

^a CENTRE FOR CELLULAR AND MOLECULAR BIOLOGY   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HOX PROTEIN; MICRORNA; UNTRANSLATED RNA; ANTISENSE OLIGONUCLEOTIDE; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEIN;

3' UNTRANSLATED REGION; ANTERIOR POSTERIOR AXIS; ARTICLE; DOWN REGULATION; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; GENE CONTROL; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE LOCUS; GENE MUTATION; HOMEOBOX; HOX GENE; HUMAN; INSECT DEVELOPMENT; INSECT GENETICS; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; ANIMAL; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CHEMISTRY; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GENETICS; GENOME; METABOLISM; PROTEIN TERTIARY STRUCTURE; REVIEW; RNA PROCESSING; TIME;

DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; EUKARYOTA;

3' UNTRANSLATED REGIONS; ANIMALS; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENES, HOMEOBOX; GENOME; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEINS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MODELS, GENETIC; OLIGONUCLEOTIDES, ANTISENSE; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; RNA PROCESSING, POST-TRANSCRIPTIONAL; RNA, UNTRANSLATED; TIME FACTORS; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

EID: 58149169020     PISSN: 02659247     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/bies.20847     Document Type: Article

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