The Drosophila Gap gene network is composed of two parallel toggle switches

PLoS ONE

Volumn 6, Issue 7, 2011, Pages

  Papatsenko, Dmitri ^a   Levine, Michael ^b  

^a MOUNT SINAI SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTERIOR POSTERIOR AXIS; ARTICLE; BACTERIOPHAGE LAMBDA; CONTROLLED STUDY; DROSOPHILA; EMBRYO SEGMENTATION; GAP GENE; GENE; GENE REPRESSION; INSECT GENETICS; MUTANT; SIMULATION; ANIMAL; ANIMAL EMBRYO; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; ENVIRONMENT; GENE REGULATORY NETWORK; GENE SILENCING; GENETICS; METABOLISM; MUTATION; PRENATAL DEVELOPMENT;

ENTEROBACTERIA PHAGE LAMBDA;

DROSOPHILA PROTEIN;

ANIMALS; BACTERIOPHAGE LAMBDA; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; DROSOPHILA PROTEINS; EMBRYO, NONMAMMALIAN; ENVIRONMENT; GENE REGULATORY NETWORKS; GENE SILENCING; GENES, INSECT; MODELS, GENETIC; MUTATION;

EID: 79959772412     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0021145     Document Type: Article

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