Article
Localized requirement for torso-like expression in follicle cells for development of terminal anlagen of the Drosophila embryo.
Nature - 16 Aug 1990
Stevens L M, Frohnhöfer H G, Klingler M, Nüsslein-Volhard C
Abstract excerpt
The torso (tor) gene, one of six identified maternal genes essential for the development of the anterior and posterior terminal structures in the Drosophila embryo, is likely to function as a transmembrane receptor tyrosine kinase. Although tor protein is uniformly distributed in the membrane of the egg cell and syncytial embryo, genetic and molecular data suggest that tor is locally activated at the ends of the...
Topics
- Animals
- Chorion
- Drosophila
- Female
- Gene Expression Regulation
- Genes
- Larva
- Mosaicism
- Mutation
- Ovary
- Phenotype
- Signal Transduction