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Dissection of Drosophila melanogaster Flight Muscles for Omics Approaches
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Hox go omics: insights from Drosophila into Hox gene targets
Anastasios Pavlopoulos1, Michael Akam
1Laboratory for Development and Evolution, University Museum of Zoology, Department of Zoology, Cambridge, UK. ap448@cam.ac.uk
Genome Biology
|April 3, 2007
Abstract:
Genetic studies of the targets of the Hox genes have revealed only the tip of the iceberg. Recent microarray studies that have identified hundreds more transcriptional responses to Hox genes in Drosophila will help elucidate the role of Hox genes in development and evolution.
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