How the Dorsal gradient works: Insights from postgenome technologies

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 105, Issue 51, 2008, Pages 20072-20076

  Hong, Joung Woo ^a   Hendrix, David A ^a   Papatsenko, Dmitri ^a   Levine, Michael S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Drosophila; Embryo; Morphogen; Regulatory code

Indexed keywords

DNA; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR DORSAL; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

CELL INTERACTION; DEVELOPMENT; DROSOPHILA; EMBRYO; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE IDENTIFICATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW;

ANIMALS; BODY PATTERNING; DROSOPHILA; DROSOPHILA PROTEINS; EMBRYO, NONMAMMALIAN; EMBRYONIC INDUCTION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; NUCLEAR PROTEINS; PHOSPHOPROTEINS; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

VERTEBRATA;

EID: 58149500204     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0806476105     Document Type: Review

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