Dorsal-ventral patterning genes restrict NK-2 homeobox gene expression to the ventral half of the central nervous system of Drosophila embryos.

doi:10.1006/dbio.1995.1283

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Dorsal-ventral patterning genes restrict NK-2 homeobox gene expression to the ventral half of the central nervous system of Drosophila embryos.

Developmental biology - 1 Oct 1995

Mellerick D M, Nirenberg M

Abstract excerpt

Genes that affect the expression of the NK-2 homeobox gene were identified by comparing the patterns of NK-2 mRNA in wild-type Drosophila embryos with patterns in mutant embryos that have defects in genes that are required to establish the ventral-dorsal pattern of primordia in the early embryo....

Topics

Animals
Central Nervous System
Drosophila Proteins
Drosophila melanogaster
Gene Expression Regulation, Developmental
Genes, Homeobox
Homeodomain Proteins
Mutation
RNA, Messenger
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