Lack of tailless leads to an increase in expression variability in Drosophila embryos

Developmental Biology

Volumn 377, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 305-317

  Janssens, Hilde ^a   Crombach, Anton ^a   Richard Wotton, Karl ^a   Cicin Sain, Damjan ^a   Surkova, Svetlana ^b   Lu Lim, Chea ^c,d   Samsonova, Maria ^b   Akam, Michael ^c   Jaeger, Johannes ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITAT POMPEU FABRA   (Spain)

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

^c Department of Zoology ^*  (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITI BRUNEI DARUSSALAM   (Brunei Darussalam)

Author keywords

Drosophila embryogenesis; Genetic capacitance; Pattern formation; Quantitative expression analysis; Robustness canalisation; Segmentation gene network

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BLASTODERM; CONTROLLED STUDY; DELETION MUTANT; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; EMBRYO; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; GENE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC REGULATION; MUTANT; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPIC VARIATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TLL GENE;

DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER;

EID: 84876345100     PISSN: 00121606     EISSN: 1095564X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ydbio.2013.01.010     Document Type: Article

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