Maternal control of Drosophila segmentation gene expression.

doi:10.1038/323278a0

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Maternal control of Drosophila segmentation gene expression.

Nature - 1 Jan 2000

Carroll S B, Winslow G M, Schüpbach T, Scott M P

Abstract excerpt

Several genes have been identified that are involved in establishing the segmented body pattern during development of the fruit-fly Drosophila melanogaster. These fall into several classes on the basis of the kind of alteration to the wild-type segmentation pattern observed in mutant embryos. For...

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Animals
Drosophila melanogaster
Gene Expression Regulation
Genes
Morphogenesis
Mutation
Proteins

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