Barad, M., Jack, T., Chadwick, R., McGinnis, W. (1988). A novel, tissue-specific, Drosophila homeobox gene. EMBO J. 7: 2151--2161.
FlyBase ID
FBrf0047932
Publication Type
Research paper
Abstract
The homeobox gene family of Drosophila appears to control a variety of position-specific patterning decisions during embryonic and imaginal development. Most of these patterning decisions determine groups of cells on the anterior-posterior axis of the Drosophila germ band. We have isolated a novel homeobox gene from Drosophila, designated H2.0. H2.0 has the most diverged homeobox so far characterized in metazoa, and, in contrast to all previously isolated homeobox genes, H2.0 exhibits a tissue-specific pattern of expression. The cells that accumulate transcripts for this novel gene correspond to the visceral musculature and its anlagen.
