Article
Integration of the head and trunk segmentation systems controls cephalic furrow formation in Drosophila.
Development (Cambridge, England) - 1 Oct 1997
Vincent A, Blankenship J T, Wieschaus E
Abstract excerpt
Genetic and molecular analyses of patterning of the Drosophila embryo have shown that the process of segmentation of the head is fundamentally different from the process of segmentation of the trunk. The cephalic furrow (CF), one of the first morphological manifestations of the patterning process...
Topics
- Animals
- Animals, Genetically Modified
- Bacterial Proteins
- Blastoderm
- Body Patterning
- Brain
- Cell Polarity
- DNA-Binding Proteins
- Drosophila
- Drosophila Proteins
- Embryo, Nonmammalian
- Embryonic Induction
- Gene Expression Regulation, Developmental
- Genes, Insect
- Head
- Homeodomain Proteins
- Mutation
- Repressor Proteins