Animal embryos need to specify different cell types, and the genetic functions that provide
such controls are easy to comprehend since they result in the formation of overtly …

Hox genes encode a family of transcriptional regulators that elicit distinct developmental
programmes along the head-to-tail axis of animals. The specific regional functions of …

The brahma (brm) gene is required for the activation of multiple homeotic genes in
Drosophila. Loss-offunction brm mutations suppress mutations in Polycomb, a repressor of …

The Third Edition of Chromatin: Structure and Function brings the reader up-to-date with the
remarkable progress in chromatin research over the past three years. It has been …

We characterized the distribution of AGAMOUS (AG) RNA during early flower development
in Arabidopsis. Mutations in this homeotic gene cause the transformation of stamens to …

Eukaryotic phenotypic diversity arises from multitasking of a core proteome of limited size.
Multitasking is routine in computers, as well as in other sophisticated information systems …

The origin story and emergence of molecular biology is muddled. The early triumphs in
bacterial genetics and the complexity of animal and plant genomes complicate an intricate …

The past decade has seen a dramatic increase in our understanding of early animal
development. The revised edition of this excellent book describes the results of this …

Most of our knowledge about the mechanisms of segmentation in arthropods comes from
work on Drosophila melanogaster. In recent years it has become clear that this mechanism …

Early in Drosophila embryogenesis, gap gene products directly repress transcription of
homeotic (HOX) genes and thereby delimit HOX expression domains. Subsequently …