Drosophila lilliputian is required for proneural gene expression in retinal development

Developmental Dynamics

Volumn 241, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 553-562

  Distefano, Ginnene M ^a   Gangemi, Andrew J ^a   Khandelwal, Preeti J ^a,c   Saunders, Aleister J ^a,b   Marenda, Daniel R ^a,b  

^a DREXEL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b DREXEL UNIVERSITY COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Atonal; Daughterless; Drosophila; FMR2; Fragile X; FRAXE; Lilli; Lilliputian; MATH5; TCF12

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; AUTOREGULATION; DROSOPHILA; FLY; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; LILLIPUTIAN; MORPHOGENESIS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETINA DEVELOPMENT;

ANIMALS; BASIC HELIX-LOOP-HELIX TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; CELL LINE; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; DROSOPHILA PROTEINS; ENHANCER ELEMENTS, GENETIC; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; HOMEOSTASIS; HUMANS; NERVE TISSUE PROTEINS; NEUROGENESIS; NUCLEAR PROTEINS; RETINA; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

EID: 84857051500     PISSN: 10588388     EISSN: 10970177     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/dvdy.23738     Document Type: Article

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