Quantitative Imaging of Transcription in Living Drosophila Embryos Links Polymerase Activity to Patterning

Current Biology

Volumn 23, Issue 21, 2013, Pages 2140-2145

  Garcia, Hernan G ^a   Tikhonov, Mikhail ^a   Lin, Albert ^a   Gregor, Thomas ^a  

^a PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA DIRECTED DNA POLYMERASE; DROSOPHILA PROTEIN;

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

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; BODY PATTERNING; DNA-DIRECTED DNA POLYMERASE; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; DROSOPHILA PROTEINS; EMBRYO, NONMAMMALIAN; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION, FLUORESCENCE; MICROSCOPY, CONFOCAL;

MLCS; MLOWN;

EID: 85027931386     PISSN: 09609822     EISSN: 18790445     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2013.08.054     Document Type: Article

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