Hox gene regulation in the central nervous system of Drosophila

Frontiers in Cellular Neuroscience

Volumn 8, Issue 1 APR, 2014, Pages

  Gummalla, Maheshwar ^a,b,c   Galetti, Sandrine ^a   Maeda, Robert K ^a,c   Karch, François ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GENEVA   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Abd A; Bithorax complex; Hox genes; miRNA; ncRNA

Indexed keywords

ABD A HOX PROTEIN; ABD B HOX PROTEIN; HOX PROTEIN; LONG UNTRANSLATED RNA; MICRORNA; UBX PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANTERIOR POSTERIOR AXIS; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM; CHROMOSOME BREAKAGE; DROSOPHILA; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; GENE CLUSTER; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE MAPPING; GENE MUTATION; GENE REPRESSION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; HOX GENE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; INTRON; NONHUMAN; REVIEW; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

EID: 84899148964     PISSN: 16625102     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fncel.2014.00096     Document Type: Review

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