Chapter 3 Hox Specificity. Unique Roles for Cofactors and Collaborators

Current Topics in Developmental Biology

Volumn 88, Issue , 2009, Pages 63-101

  Mann, Richard S ^a   Lelli, Katherine M ^a   Joshi, Rohit ^a  

^a Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA; DNA BINDING PROTEIN; DROSOPHILA PROTEIN; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEIN;

ANIMAL; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CHEMISTRY; DROSOPHILA; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; METABOLISM; MORPHOGENESIS; PRENATAL DEVELOPMENT; PROTEIN BINDING; REVIEW;

ANIMALS; BODY PATTERNING; DNA; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; DROSOPHILA; DROSOPHILA PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEINS; MODELS, MOLECULAR; PROTEIN BINDING;

EID: 67749095703     PISSN: 00702153     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1016/S0070-2153(09)88003-4     Document Type: Review

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