Segregation of eye and antenna fates maintained by mutual antagonism in Drosophila

Development (Cambridge)

Volumn 139, Issue 18, 2012, Pages 3413-3421

  Wang, Cheng Wei ^a,b   Henry Sun, Y ^a,b  

^a NATIONAL YANG MING UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b INSTITUTE OF MOLECULAR BIOLOGY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Drosophila; Eye antenna; Mutual antagonism; Transcriptional repression

Indexed keywords

CT PROTEIN; DROSOPHILA PROTEIN; EY PROTEIN; HTH PROTEIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR SINE OCULIS; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANTENNA (ORGAN); ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DROSOPHILA; EYE; EYE DEVELOPMENT; FEMALE; GENE REPRESSION; GENE SEGREGATION; MALE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION;

ANIMALS; ARTHROPOD ANTENNAE; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; DROSOPHILA PROTEINS; EYE; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEINS; NUCLEAR PROTEINS; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

EID: 84865255075     PISSN: 09501991     EISSN: 14779129     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1242/dev.078857     Document Type: Article

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