How to make stripes: Deciphering the transition from nonperiodic to periodic patterns in Drosophila segmentation

Development

Volumn 138, Issue 14, 2011, Pages 3067-3078

  Schroeder, Mark D ^a,b   Greer, Christina ^a   Gaul, Ulrike ^a,b  

^a ROCKEFELLER UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Cis regulatory element; Drosophila; Longrange regulation; Pair rule gene; Pattern formation; Regulatory network; Segmentation; Transcription control

Indexed keywords

CIS ACTING ELEMENT; FUSHI TARAZU PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DROSOPHILA; EMBRYO; EMBRYO SEGMENTATION; GENE CONTROL; GENE EXPRESSION; GENOME; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; BODY PATTERNING; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; DROSOPHILA; DROSOPHILA PROTEINS; EMBRYO, NONMAMMALIAN; FUSHI TARAZU TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; GENOTYPE; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEINS; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; NUCLEAR PROTEINS; PERIODICITY; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

EID: 79959445766     PISSN: 09501991     EISSN: 14779129     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1242/dev.062141     Document Type: Article

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