An Essential Role for Zygotic Expression in the Pre-Cellular Drosophila Embryo

PLoS Genetics

Volumn 9, Issue 4, 2013, Pages

  Ali Murthy, Zehra ^a   Lott, Susan E ^b,c   Eisen, Michael B ^b   Kornberg, Thomas B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DROSOPHILA PROTEIN; EN PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; BLASTODERM; BLASTULA; CELL CYCLE; CELL DIVISION; DROSOPHILA; EMBRYO; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; EN GENE; GENE; GENE EXPRESSION; HETEROZYGOSITY; MITOSIS; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RNA SEQUENCE; SYNCYTIUM; TRANSGENE; ZYGOTE;

ANIMALS; BLASTODERM; CELL DIVISION; CELL NUCLEUS; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; EMBRYO, NONMAMMALIAN; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEINS; MORPHOGENESIS; MUTATION; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; ZYGOTE;

EID: 84876820162     PISSN: 15537390     EISSN: 15537404     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1003428     Document Type: Article

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