Chapter 1 The Bithorax Complex of Drosophila. An Exceptional Hox Cluster

Current Topics in Developmental Biology

Volumn 88, Issue , 2009, Pages 1-33

  Maeda, Robert K ^a   Karch, François ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GENEVA   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

DROSOPHILA PROTEIN; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; UBX PROTEIN, DROSOPHILA;

ANIMAL; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; DROSOPHILA; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; MORPHOGENESIS; MULTIGENE FAMILY; PRENATAL DEVELOPMENT; REVIEW;

ANIMALS; BODY PATTERNING; DROSOPHILA; DROSOPHILA PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEINS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MULTIGENE FAMILY; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

EID: 67749130725     PISSN: 00702153     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1016/S0070-2153(09)88001-0     Document Type: Review

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