Neurogenic genes control gene expression at the transcriptional level in early neurogenesis and in mesectoderm specification.

Abstract excerpt

The development of the central nervous system in the Drosophila embryo is initiated by the acquisition of neural potential by clusters of ectodermal cells, promoted by the activity of proneural genes. Proneural gene function is antagonized by neurogenic genes, resulting in the realization of the neural potential in a single cell per cluster. To analyse the relationship between proneural and neurogenic genes, we...

Topics

• Animals
• Central Nervous System
• Drosophila
• Ectoderm
• Gene Expression Regulation, Developmental
• Genes, Insect
• Immunohistochemistry
• In Situ Hybridization
• Mutation