Interactions between the amnioserosa and the epidermis revealed by the function of the u-shaped gene

Biology Open

Volumn 1, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 353-361

  Lada, Karolina ^a   Gorfinkiel, Nicole ^a,b   Arias, Alfonso Martinez ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b CENTRO DE BIOLOGÍA MOLECULAR SEVERO OCHOA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Amnioserosa; Dorsal closure; Epidermis; JNK; U shaped

Indexed keywords

EID: 84964861565     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20466390     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1242/bio.2012497     Document Type: Article

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