Institution/s: Universidad de Valladolid, Universitatea de Vest din Timişoara
Project: Diccionario Terminológico de Genética (Eurogene)
Identification number: 4
Subdomains: Studies of chromatin, Studies of DNA, Studies of RNA, Techniques
Author/s: Carmen CUÉLLAR LÁZARO, Isabel COMAS MARTÍNEZ, Laura SANJUÁN LANCHO, Lucia UDRESCU
Creation / modification date: 02-03-2014
Term: homoeotic gene
Gramatical category: s
Definition: One gene that determines the developmental fates of cells.
Context: The engrailed locus of Drosophila melanogaster has the characteristics of both a homoeotic gene and a segmentation gene; like a homoeotic gene, it specifies the development of specific compartments of the Drosophila embryo (the posterior compartments of each segment) […]
Weighting mark: nor
Sources:
Term: EMERY, A.E.H. y MUELLER, R.F. (1992) Elements of Medical Genetics, Churchill Livingstone: New York. 8th Edition.
Definition: BUSTURIA, A. y M. BIENZ (1993). Silencers in abdominal-B, a homeotic Drosophila gene. The EMBO Journal, 12 (4), 1415-1425. Recuperado el 25 de abril de 2013 de: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC413353/pdf/emboj00076-0159.pdf
Context: ANDERS F., McGINNIS, W. J. y W. J. GEHRING (1985). Isolation of a homoeo box-containing gene from the engrailed region of Drosophila and the spatial distribution of its transcripts. Nature, 313 284-289. Recuperado el 25 de abril de 2013 de: http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v313/n6000/abs/313284a0.html