Terminal pattern elements in Drosophila embryo induced by the torso-like protein.

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Terminal pattern elements in Drosophila embryo induced by the torso-like protein.

Nature - 24 Feb 1994

Martin J R, Raibaud A, Ollo R

Abstract excerpt

The genes torso (tor) and torso-like (tsl) are two of the Drosophila maternal group genes implicated in a receptor tyrosine kinase signalling pathway that specifies terminal cell fate (reviewed in ref. 3). Loss-of-function mutations in these loci cause an identical phenotype in which pattern elem...

Topics

Amino Acid Sequence
Animals
Base Sequence
Blotting, Southern
Chromosome Mapping
Drosophila
Drosophila Proteins
Female
Genes, Insect
In Situ Hybridization
Insect Hormones
Male
Molecular Sequence Data
Morphogenesis
Mutation
Ovary
Protein-Tyrosine Kinases
RNA, Messenger

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