Drosophila long-chain acyl-CoA synthetase acts like a gap gene in embryonic segmentation

Developmental Biology

Volumn 353, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 259-265

  Zhang, Yi ^a,b   Zhang, Yang ^a   Gao, Yu ^a,b   Zhao, Xi ^a,b   Wang, Zhaohui ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF GENETICS AND DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

Author keywords

ACSL4; Drosophila; Embryonic segmentation; Hunchback; Knirps

Indexed keywords

LONG CHAIN FATTY ACID COENZYME A LIGASE;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DROSOPHILA; EMBRYO; EMBRYO PATTERN FORMATION; EMBRYO SEGMENTATION; EVEN SKIPPED GENE; GENE; GENE DISRUPTION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE MUTATION; HUNCHBACK GENE; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; KNI GENE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FUNCTION;

EID: 79955025066     PISSN: 00121606     EISSN: 1095564X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ydbio.2011.02.030     Document Type: Article

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