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Functional characterization of PAS and HES family bHLH transcription factors during the metamorphosis of the red flour beetle, Tribolium castaneum.
Gene - 1 Dec 2009
Bitra Kavita, Tan Anjiang, Dowling Ashley, Palli Subba R
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The basic helix-loop-helix transcription factors are present in animals, plants and fungi and play important roles in the control of cellular proliferation, tissue differentiation, development and detoxification. Although insect genomes contain more than 50 helix-loop-helix transcription factors, the functions of only a few are known. RNAi has become a widely used tool to knock-down the expression to analyze the...
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