Lethal of scute, a proneural gene, participates in the specification of muscle progenitors during Drosophila embryogenesis.

Targeted gene expression as a means of altering cell fates and generating dominant phenotypes

1993 • 9,476 citations

Expression of a single transfected cDNA converts fibroblasts to myoblasts

1987 • 3,373 citations

The Genome of Drosophila Melanogaster

1992 • 3,126 citations

The embryonic development of Drosophila melanogaster

1938 • 2,188 citations

Interactions between heterologous helix-loop-helix proteins generate complexes that bind specifically to a common DNA sequence

1989 • 1,876 citations

MyoD or Myf-5 is required for the formation of skeletal muscle

1993 • 1,663 citations

The Embryonic Development of Drosophila melanogaster

1985 • 1,371 citations

Inactivation of MyoD in mice leads to up-regulation of the myogenic HLH gene Myf-5 and results in apparently normal muscle development

1992 • 973 citations

Targeted inactivation of the muscle regulatory gene Myf-5 results in abnormal rib development and perinatal death

1992 • 700 citations

A gradient of nuclear localization of the dorsal protein determines dorsoventral pattern in the Drosophila embryo

1989 • 652 citations

Requirement of MADS Domain Transcription Factor D-MEF2 for Muscle Formation in Drosophila

1995 • 502 citations

From grasshopper to Drosophila: a common plan for neuronal development

1984 • 475 citations

The embryonic development of larval muscles in Drosophila

1990 • 451 citations

Proneural clusters of achaete-scute expression and the generation of sensory organs in the Drosophila imaginal wing disc.

1991 • 444 citations

Drosophila MEF2, a transcription factor that is essential for myogenesis.

1995 • 426 citations

HLH proteins, fly neurogenesis, and vertebrate myogenesis

1993 • 420 citations

The prospero gene encodes a divergent homeodomain protein that controls neuronal identity in Drosophila.

1991 • 334 citations

The basic-helix-loop-helix domain of Drosophila lethal of scute protein is sufficient for proneural function and activates neurogenic genes

1994 • 306 citations

The expression of three members of the achaete-scute gene complex correlates with neuroblast segregation in Drosophila

1987 • 272 citations

Control of Drosophila wing and haltere development by the nuclear vestigial gene product.

1991 • 270 citations

Mutations in a novel gene, myoblast city, provide evidence in support of the founder cell hypothesis for Drosophila muscle development

1995 • 263 citations

Expression of a MyoD family member prefigures muscle pattern in Drosophila embryos.

1990 • 243 citations

Cells with persistent twist expression are the embryonic precursors of adult muscles in Drosophila

1991 • 242 citations

Transcriptional activation by heterodimers of the achaete-scute and daughterless gene products of Drosophila.

1991 • 238 citations

A role for the Drosophila neurogenic genes in mesoderm differentiation

1991 • 235 citations

apterous is a drosophila LIM domain gene required for the development of a subset of embryonic muscles

1992 • 227 citations

A new Drosophila homeo box gene is expressed in mesodermal precursor cells of distinct muscles during embryogenesis.

1990 • 216 citations

The maternal sex determination gene daughterless has zygotic activity necessary for the formation of peripheral neurons in Drosophila.

1988 • 179 citations

Defective neuroblast commitment in mutants of the achaete-scute complex and adjacent genes of D. melanogaster

1990 • 174 citations

Embryogenesis of an insect nervous system II: A second class of neuron precursor cells and the origin of the intersegmental connectives

1981 • 170 citations

Distribution and function of the lethal of scute gene product during early neurogenesis in Drosophila

1991 • 136 citations

The Drosophila homologue of vertebrate myogenic-determination genes encodes a transiently expressed nuclear protein marking primary myogenic cells.

1991 • 136 citations

Muscle pattern diversification in Drosophila is determined by the autonomous function of homeotic genes in the embryonic mesoderm

1994 • 124 citations

A dual requirement for neurogenic genes in Drosophila myogenesis

1993 • 95 citations

daughterless is essential for neuronal precursor differentiation but not for initiation of neuronal precursor formation in Drosophila embryo

1994 • 73 citations

Maternal effects of zygotic mutants affecting early neurogenesis inDrosophila

1982 • 66 citations

Molecular characterization of the lethal of scute genetic function

1993 • 24 citations