Anterior-posterior positional information in the absence of a strong Bicoid gradient

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

Volumn 106, Issue 10, 2009, Pages 3823-3828

  Ochoa Espinosa, Amanda ^a   Yu, Danyang ^a   Tsirigos, Aristotelis ^a   Struffi, Paolo ^a   Small, Stephen ^a  

^a NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Morphogen; Patterning; Transcription

Indexed keywords

TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR BICOID; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; BCD GENE; BINDING SITE; CONCENTRATION RESPONSE; DROSOPHILA; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; EMBRYO PATTERN FORMATION; FEMALE; GENE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE TARGETING; GENETIC MANIPULATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; WILD TYPE;

ANIMALS; BODY PATTERNING; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; EMBRYO, NONMAMMALIAN; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; GENOME, INSECT; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEINS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE ARRAY SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; TRANS-ACTIVATORS;

EID: 62649174030     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0807878105     Document Type: Article

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