Distance measurements via the morphogen gradient of Bicoid in Drosophila embryos

BMC Developmental Biology

Volumn 10, Issue , 2010, Pages

  He, Feng ^a,b,c   Wen, Ying ^c   Cheung, David ^c   Deng, Jingyuan ^c,e   Lu, Long J ^c,e   Jiao, Renjie ^a   Ma, Jun ^c,d  

^a INSTITUTE OF BIOPHYSICS   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

^c Children's Hospital Research Foundation   (United States)

^d Developmental Biology Cincinnati Children's Research   (United States)

^e University of Cincinnati   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BICOID PROTEIN, DROSOPHILA; DNA BINDING PROTEIN; DROSOPHILA PROTEIN; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEIN; HUNCHBACK PROTEIN, DROSOPHILA; TRANSACTIVATOR PROTEIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

ANIMAL; ANIMAL EMBRYO; ARTICLE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; FEMALE; METABOLISM; MORPHOGENESIS; PRENATAL DEVELOPMENT;

ANIMALS; BODY PATTERNING; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; DROSOPHILA PROTEINS; EMBRYO, NONMAMMALIAN; FEMALE; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEINS; TRANS-ACTIVATORS; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

EID: 77955061074     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1471213X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-213X-10-80     Document Type: Article

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