Transcriptional activities of the Pax6 gene eyeless regulate tissue specificity of ectopic eye formation in Drosophila

Developmental Biology

Volumn 334, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 492-502

  Weasner, Bonnie M ^a   Weasner, Brandon ^a   DeYoung, Stephanie M ^a   Michaels, Scott D ^a   Kumar, Justin P ^a  

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Eye development; Eyeless; Pax6; Retina; Twin of eyeless

Indexed keywords

DNA BINDING PROTEIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR PAX6;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEAMINATION; DROSOPHILA; ECTOPIC TISSUE; EYE DEVELOPMENT; EYE MALFORMATION; FLY; GENE FUNCTION; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; MULTIGENE FAMILY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN FUNCTION; RETINA DEVELOPMENT; TISSUE SPECIFICITY; YEAST;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 70349283024     PISSN: 00121606     EISSN: 1095564X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ydbio.2009.04.027     Document Type: Article

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