Article
Muscles in the Drosophila second thoracic segment are patterned independently of autonomous homeotic gene function.
Current biology : CB - 1 Apr 1997
Roy S, Shashidhara L S, VijayRaghavan K
Abstract excerpt
BACKGROUND: In Drosophila, segment-specific muscle pattern is thought to be determined by the autonomous function of homeotic selector genes in the mesoderm in combination with inductive cues from the developing epidermis and nervous system. Here, we have examined the roles of homeotic genes in the patterning of the somatic muscles of the thoracic segments of Drosophila. RESULTS: We determined the expression...
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- Animals
- Antennapedia Homeodomain Protein
- Crosses, Genetic
- DNA-Binding Proteins
- Drosophila Proteins
- Drosophila melanogaster