Interactions between segment polarity genes and the generation of the segmental pattern in Drosophila.

doi:10.1016/0925-4773(91)90059-f

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Interactions between segment polarity genes and the generation of the segmental pattern in Drosophila.

Mechanisms of development - 1 Sept 1991

Hidalgo A

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Although mutations in the segment polarity genes wingless, engrailed, hedgehog, gooseberry and cubitus-interruptusD all affect the region of naked cuticle within each segment of the Drosophila larva, subtle phenotypic differences suggest that these genes play different roles in segmental patterni...

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Animals
Drosophila melanogaster
Embryo, Nonmammalian
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Gene Expression Regulation
Genes, Homeobox
Genes, Regulator
Larva
Phenotype

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