Alternative splicing modulates Ubx protein function in Drosophila melanogaster

Genetics

Volumn 184, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 745-758

  Reed, Hilary C ^a   Hoare, Tim ^a   Thomsen, Stefan ^b   Weaver, Thomas A ^a   White, Robert A H ^a   Akam, Michael ^a   Alonso, Claudio R ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SUSSEX   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DECAPENTAPLEGIC PROTEIN; INSECT PROTEIN; RNA; UBX PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ABDOMINAL WALL MUSCULATURE; ALTERNATIVE RNA SPLICING; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DECAPENTAPLEGIC GENE; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; EMBRYO MEMBRANE; GENE; GENE TARGETING; HOX GENE; HOX GENE ULTRABITHORAX GENE; IN VIVO STUDY; MESODERM; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN FUNCTION;

ALTERNATIVE SPLICING; AMINO ACID MOTIFS; ANIMALS; DNA; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; DROSOPHILA PROTEINS; EMBRYO, NONMAMMALIAN; EMBRYONIC DEVELOPMENT; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEINS; MESODERM; PROTEIN ISOFORMS; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER;

EID: 77950625598     PISSN: 00166731     EISSN: 00166731     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1534/genetics.109.112086     Document Type: Article

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