The Bicoid gradient is shaped independently of nuclei

Development

Volumn 137, Issue 17, 2010, Pages 2857-2862

  Grimm, Oliver ^a   Wieschaus, Eric ^a  

^a PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Bicoid; Drosophila melanogaster; Morphogen; Pattern formation

Indexed keywords

TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR BICOID; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; BICOID PROTEIN, DROSOPHILA; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEIN; MUTANT PROTEIN; RECOMBINANT PROTEIN; TRANSACTIVATOR PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; CELL NUCLEUS; CELLULAR DISTRIBUTION; CYTOPLASM; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; EMBRYO; NONHUMAN; NUCLEAR IMPORT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; WILD TYPE; ACTIVE TRANSPORT; ANIMAL; GENE; GENE DELETION; GENETICS; KINETICS; METABOLISM; MORPHOGENESIS; PHYSIOLOGY; PRENATAL DEVELOPMENT; TRANSGENIC ANIMAL;

DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER;

ACTIVE TRANSPORT, CELL NUCLEUS; ANIMALS; ANIMALS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; BODY PATTERNING; CELL NUCLEUS; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; GENES, INSECT; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEINS; KINETICS; MUTANT PROTEINS; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS; SEQUENCE DELETION; TRANS-ACTIVATORS;

EID: 77956202405     PISSN: 09501991     EISSN: 14779129     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1242/dev.052589     Document Type: Article

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