Dynamic Rewiring of the Drosophila Retinal Determination Network Switches Its Function from Selector to Differentiation

PLoS Genetics

Volumn 9, Issue 8, 2013, Pages

  Atkins, Mardelle ^a,b   Jiang, Yuwei ^a,c   Sansores Garcia, Leticia ^b   Jusiak, Barbara ^a   Halder, Georg ^a,b   Mardon, Graeme ^a  

^a BAYLOR COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DECAPENTAPLEGIC PROTEIN; SONIC HEDGEHOG PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DACHSHUND GENE; DEVELOPMENTAL STAGE; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; EYE DEVELOPMENT; EYELESS GENE; EYES ABSENT GENE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE FUNCTION; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENE REGULATORY NETWORK; GENE SWITCHING; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC SELECTION; INTRACELLULAR SIGNALING; NONHUMAN; REGULATOR GENE; SINE OCULIS GENE; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; TWIN OF EYELESS GENE; UPREGULATION;

ANIMALS; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CONSERVED SEQUENCE; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; EYE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; GENE REGULATORY NETWORKS; ORGANOGENESIS; RETINA; RETINALDEHYDE;

EID: 84884631941     PISSN: 15537390     EISSN: 15537404     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1003731     Document Type: Article

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