Homeotic Function of Drosophila Bithorax-Complex miRNAs Mediates Fertility by Restricting Multiple Hox Genes and TALE Cofactors in the CNS

Developmental Cell

Volumn 29, Issue 6, 2014, Pages 635-648

  Garaulet, Daniel L ^a,b   Castellanos, Monica C ^c   Bejarano, Fernando ^a   Sanfilippo, Piero ^a,d   Tyler, David M ^a   Allan, Douglas W ^c   Sánchez Herrero, Ernesto ^b   Lai, Eric C ^a  

^a MEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING CANCER CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSIDAD AUTÓNOMA DE MADRID   (Spain)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^d Gerstner Sloan Kettering Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTENNAPEDIA PROTEIN; BITHORAX COMPLEX; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEIN; MICRORNA; OXYGENASE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VESICULAR GLUTAMATE TRANSPORTER;

3' UNTRANSLATED REGION; ALLELE; ANTERIOR POSTERIOR AXIS; ARTICLE; BLASTODERM; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM; DELETION MUTANT; DROSOPHILA; FEMALE; FEMALE FERTILITY; FEMALE STERILITY; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE LOCUS; GENE TARGETING; HETEROZYGOSITY; HETEROZYGOTE; HOMEOBOX; HOX GENE; LARVA; MOTONEURON; NONHUMAN; OVIDUCT; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPRODUCTIVE BEHAVIOR; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; VENTRAL ROOT;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; BODY PATTERNING; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; DROSOPHILA PROTEINS; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; GENES, HOMEOBOX; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEINS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMMUNOENZYME TECHNIQUES; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; LARVA; MICRORNAS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MOTOR NEURONS; MULTIGENE FAMILY; OVIDUCTS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, NUCLEIC ACID; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

EID: 84904672975     PISSN: 15345807     EISSN: 18781551     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.devcel.2014.04.023     Document Type: Article

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