The Role of the bHLH Protein Hairy in Morphogenetic Furrow Progression in the Developing Drosophila Eye

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 10, 2012, Pages

  Bhattacharya, Abhishek ^a,b   Baker, Nicholas E ^a  

^a ALBERT EINSTEIN COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b Columbia College of Physicians and Surgeons ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BASIC HELIX LOOP HELIX TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; BIOLOGICAL MARKER; R8 PROTEIN SENSELESS; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; BHLH GENE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DA GENE; DOWN REGULATION; DROSOPHILA; EMC GENE; EYE DEVELOPMENT; GENE; GENE CONTROL; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE FUNCTION; GENE MUTATION; GENE REGULATORY NETWORK; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HAIRY GENE; MOLECULAR CLONING; MOLECULAR MECHANICS; MORPHOGENESIS; MORPHOGENETIC FURROW PROGRESSION; NONHUMAN; NULL ALLELE;

ANIMALS; BASIC HELIX-LOOP-HELIX TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; DROSOPHILA PROTEINS; EYE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; IMAGINAL DISCS; INSECT PROTEINS; MORPHOGENESIS; REPRESSOR PROTEINS; RETINA; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

EID: 84868285668     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0047503     Document Type: Article

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