Control of germline torso expression by the BTB/POZ domain protein pipsqueak is required for embryonic terminal patterning in Drosophila

Genetics

Volumn 187, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 513-521

  Grillo, Marco ^a   Furriols, Marc ^a   Casanova, Jordi ^a   Luschnig, Stefan ^b  

^a INSTITUTE FOR RESEARCH IN BIOMEDICINE   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DROSOPHILA PROTEIN; PROTEIN PIPSQUEAK; PROTEIN TORSO; PROTEIN TYROSINE KINASE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DROSOPHILA; EMBRYO PATTERN FORMATION; GENE; GENE ACTIVATION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE FUNCTION; GENE MUTATION; GENE SILENCING; GENE STRUCTURE; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; HKB GENE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN FUNCTION; RNA SPLICING; TLL GENE;

DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER;

EID: 79951547812     PISSN: 00166731     EISSN: 00166731     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1534/genetics.110.121624     Document Type: Article

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