The transcription factor D-Pax2 regulates crystallin production during eye development in Drosophila melanogaster

Developmental Dynamics

Volumn 238, Issue 10, 2009, Pages 2530-2539

  Dziedzic, Katharine ^a   Heaphy, Julie ^b   Prescott, Hallie ^b   Kavaler, Joshua ^a  

^a Health Services and Department of Biology   (United States)

^b MIDDLEBURY COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

Cone cells; Crystallin; D Pax2; Drosophila eye development; External sensory organs; Transcriptional regulation

Indexed keywords

CRYSTALLIN; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR D PAX2; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; EVOLUTIONARY DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY; EYE DEVELOPMENT; GENE CONTROL; LENS; MUTATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; REGULATORY MECHANISM; SENSE ORGAN;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CRYSTALLINS; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; DROSOPHILA PROTEINS; ENHANCER ELEMENTS, GENETIC; EYE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; LENS, CRYSTALLINE; MICE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTATION; PAX2 TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; PHOTORECEPTOR CELLS, INVERTEBRATE; PROMOTER REGIONS, GENETIC; RECOMBINANT FUSION PROTEINS; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT;

DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER;

EID: 70349325835     PISSN: 10588388     EISSN: 10970177     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/dvdy.22082     Document Type: Article

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