Unique establishment of procephalic head segments is supported by the identification of cis-regulatory elements driving segment-specific segment polarity gene expression in Drosophila

Development Genes and Evolution

Volumn 221, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 1-16

  Ntini, Evgenia ^a   Wimmer, Ernst A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Enhancer dissection; Enhancer promoter interaction; Head development; Metamerization; Segmentation

Indexed keywords

CIS ACTING ELEMENT; INTERCALARY SPECIFIC CIS REGULATORY ELEMENT; SONIC HEDGEHOG PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; WNT1 PROTEIN;

5' UNTRANSLATED REGION; ANTENNA (ORGAN); ARTICLE; BLASTODERM; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA BINDING; DROSOPHILA; EMBRYO; EMBRYO SEGMENTATION; ENHANCER REGION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE REGULATORY NETWORK; GENOMIC FRAGMENT; HEAD DEVELOPMENT; INSECT DEVELOPMENT; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; REGULATORY SEQUENCE; RNA TRANSLATION; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; TRUNK;

ANIMALS; BODY PATTERNING; DROSOPHILA; DROSOPHILA PROTEINS; EMBRYO, NONMAMMALIAN; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; HEAD; HEDGEHOG PROTEINS; REGULATORY SEQUENCES, NUCLEIC ACID; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC; WNT1 PROTEIN;

ERINACEIDAE;

EID: 79952332349     PISSN: 0949944X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00427-011-0354-8     Document Type: Article

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