Activation of transcription in Drosophila embryos is a gradual process mediated by the nucleocytoplasmic ratio.

A non-radioactive in situ hybridization method for the localization of specific RNAs in Drosophila embryos reveals translational control of the segmentation gene hunchback

1989 • 2,555 citations

A major developmental transition in early xenopus embryos: I. characterization and timing of cellular changes at the midblastula stage

1982 • 1,635 citations

A major developmental transition in early xenopus embryos: II. control of the onset of transcription

1982 • 1,065 citations

Studies of nuclear and cytoplasmic behaviour during the five mitotic cycles that precede gastrulation in Drosophila embryogenesis

1983 • 1,034 citations

Progression of the cell cycle through mitosis leads to abortion of nascent transcripts

1991 • 379 citations

Parameters controlling transcriptional activation during early drosophila development

1986 • 377 citations

Cell cycle control by the nucleo-cytoplasmic ratio in early Drosophila development

1986 • 338 citations

The events of the midblastula transition in Xenopus are regulated by changes in the cell cycle

1987 • 312 citations

Distinct molecular mechanism regulate cell cycle timing at successive stages of Drosophila embryogenesis.

1994 • 301 citations

FTZ-F1, a Steroid Hormone Receptor-like Protein Implicated in the Activation of fushi tarazu

1991 • 292 citations

Autoradiographic study of protein and RNA formation during early development of Drosophila eggs

1976 • 290 citations

The tramtrack gene encodes a Drosophila finger protein that interacts with the ftz transcriptional regulatory region and shows a novel embryonic expression pattern.

1990 • 218 citations

Directing Cell Division During Development

1989 • 186 citations

A sequence-specific DNA-binding protein that activates fushi tarazu segmentation gene expression.

1990 • 186 citations

Spatial and temporal patterns of Krüppel gene expression in early Drosophila embryos

1985 • 175 citations

Rates of synthesis of major classes of RNA in Drosophila embryos

1979 • 168 citations

Competition between chromatin and transcription complex assembly regulates gene expression during early development

1994 • 159 citations

tramtrack is a transcriptional repressor required for cell fate determination in the Drosophila eye.

1993 • 157 citations

Loss of gene function through rapid mitotic cycles in the Drosophila embryo

1992 • 150 citations

Patterns of engrailed and fushi tarazu transcripts reveal novel intermediate stages in Drosophila segmentation

1985 • 148 citations

Alternatively spliced transcripts of the Drosophila tramtrack gene encode zinc finger proteins with distinct DNA binding specificities.

1992 • 144 citations

Dynamic changes in microtubule configuration correlate with nuclear migration in the preblastoderm Drosophila embryo

1993 • 141 citations

The caudal gene product is a direct activator of fushi tarazu transcription during Drosophila embryogenesis

1989 • 133 citations

bicoid and the terminal system activate tailless expression in the early Drosophila embryo

1992 • 121 citations

A bZIP protein, sisterless-a, collaborates with bHLH transcription factors early in Drosophila development to determine sex.

1993 • 118 citations

Temporal and spatial relationships between segmentation and homeotic gene expression in Drosophila embryos: distributions of the fushi tarazu, engrailed, Sex combs reduced, Antennapedia, and Ultrabithorax proteins.

1988 • 117 citations

Repression of the Drosophila fushi tarazu (ftz) segmentation gene.

1991 • 92 citations

Analysis of maternal effect mutant combinations elucidates regulation and function of the overlap of hunchback and Krüppel gene expression in the Drosophila blastoderm embryo

1989 • 68 citations

Ectopic expression of the Drosophila tramtrack gene results in multiple embryonic defects, including repression of even-skipped and fushi tarazu

1992 • 52 citations

Temporal regulation in the early embryo: is MBT too good to be true?

1992 • 51 citations

Temporal regulation of gene expression in the blastoderm Drosophila embryo.

1991 • 46 citations

Developmental analysis of the grandchildless (gs(1)N26) mutation in Drosophila melanogaster: Abnormal cleavage patterns and defects in pole cell formation

1984 • 22 citations