Modeling of Gap Gene Expression in Drosophila Kruppel Mutants

PLoS Computational Biology

Volumn 8, Issue 8, 2012, Pages

  Kozlov, Konstantin ^a   Surkova, Svetlana ^a   Myasnikova, Ekaterina ^a   Reinitz, John ^b   Samsonova, Maria ^a  

^a PETER THE GREAT ST PETERSBURG POLYTECHNIC UNIVERSITY   (Russian Federation)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPLEX NETWORKS; COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN;

BODY SEGMENT; DROSOPHILA EMBRYOS; DROSOPHILLA; EMBRYONIC PATTERNING; GENE NETWORKS; GENES EXPRESSION; NULL MUTANT; PERIODIC PATTERN; REGULATORY EFFECTS; SYSTEM-LEVEL APPROACH;

GENE EXPRESSION;

ANTERIOR POSTERIOR AXIS; ARTICLE; CAUDAL GENE; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; EMBRYO; GENE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE INTERACTION; HUNCHBACK GENE; KRUPPEL GENE; MUTANT; NONHUMAN; REGULATORY MECHANISM; SYSTEMS BIOLOGY; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

EID: 84866065130     PISSN: 1553734X     EISSN: 15537358     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pcbi.1002635     Document Type: Article

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