Live Imaging of Bicoid-Dependent Transcription in Drosophila Embryos

Current Biology

Volumn 23, Issue 21, 2013, Pages 2135-2139

  Lucas, Tanguy ^a,b,d   Ferraro, Teresa ^a,b,c,d   Roelens, Baptiste ^a,b,d   De Las Heras Chanes, Jose ^a,b   Walczak, Aleksandra M ^b,c,d   Coppey, Mathieu ^a,b,c,d   Dostatni, Nathalie ^a,b,d  

^a INSTITUT CURIE   (France)

^b CNRS   (France)

^c ECOLE NORMALE SUPÉRIEURE   (France)

^d SORBONNE UNIVERSITÉ   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BICOID PROTEIN, DROSOPHILA; DNA BINDING PROTEIN; DROSOPHILA PROTEIN; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEIN; HUNCHBACK PROTEIN, DROSOPHILA; MESSENGER RNA; TRANSACTIVATOR PROTEIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

ANIMAL; ANIMAL EMBRYO; ARTICLE; CONFOCAL MICROSCOPY; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; FLUORESCENCE IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; METABOLISM; PRENATAL DEVELOPMENT; TRANSGENIC ANIMAL; VIDEORECORDING;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; DROSOPHILA PROTEINS; EMBRYO, NONMAMMALIAN; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEINS; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION, FLUORESCENCE; MICROSCOPY, CONFOCAL; RNA, MESSENGER; TRANS-ACTIVATORS; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; VIDEOTAPE RECORDING;

MLCS; MLOWN;

EID: 85027924265     PISSN: 09609822     EISSN: 18790445     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2013.08.053     Document Type: Article

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