The Drosophila sugarless gene modulates Wingless signaling and encodes an enzyme involved in polysaccharide biosynthesis.

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Published in Development on September 01, 1997

Authors

U Häcker1, X Lin, N Perrimon

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1: Department of Genetics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts 02115, USA.

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