BMP-dependent serosa and amnion specification in the scuttle fly Megaselia abdita

Development (Cambridge)

Volumn 139, Issue 18, 2012, Pages 3373-3382

  Rafiqi, Ab Matteen ^a,b   Park, Chee Hyurng ^a   Kwan, Chun Wai ^a   Lemk, Steffen ^c   Schmidt Ott, Urs ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

^b MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Bone morphogenetic protein; Diptera; Evolutionary development

Indexed keywords

BONE MORPHOGENETIC PROTEIN; MESSENGER RNA;

AMNION; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BLASTODERM; CONTROLLED STUDY; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; EMBRYO; FLY; GAIN OF FUNCTION MUTATION; GASTRULATION; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; MEGASELIA ABDITA; NONHUMAN; POSITIVE FEEDBACK; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN FUNCTION; RNA INTERFERENCE; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SEROSA; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TISSUE DIFFERENTIATION; TISSUE SPECIFICITY;

AMNION; ANIMALS; BONE MORPHOGENETIC PROTEINS; DIPTERA; EMBRYO, NONMAMMALIAN; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; INSECT PROTEINS; SEROUS MEMBRANE;

EID: 84865222250     PISSN: 09501991     EISSN: 14779129     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1242/dev.083873     Document Type: Article

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