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Drosophila castor is regulated negatively by the Ubx and abdA genes, but positively by the AbdB gene.
The International journal of developmental biology - 1 Jan 2010
Ahn Ju-Hyun, Yoo Siuk, Park Hyun-Joo, Jung Keuk-Il, Kim Sang-Hee, Jeon Sang-Hak
Abstract excerpt
The ventral nerve cord (VNC) of Drosophila exhibits significant segmental-specific characteristics during embryonic development. Homeotic genes are expressed over long periods of time and confer identity to the different segments. castor (cas) is one of the genes which are expressed in neuroblasts along the VNC. However, at late embryonic stages, cas transcripts are found only in head and thoracic segments and...
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