Zygotically transcribed genes Biochemical pathways

Maternally transcribed genes

Earliest stages of Drosophila development: Sperm entry and activation and female meiosis

• Acting immediately after fertilization
  
  • Activin signaling pathway
  • Anterior group
  • Cellularization (these genes are transcribed maternally)
  • Dorsal-ventral patterning and Dpp signaling
  • Gap genes
  • Pair rule genes
  • Segment polarity genes
  • Hox (homeobox) cluster
  • Unclassified genes involved in regulation of pair rule genes
  
  
• Biochemical systems
  
  • Adhesion
  • Antennapedia and Bithorax complexes - determination of segmental identity
  • Apoptosis and Autophagy
  • Axon guidance
  • Basement membrane
  • Biogenic Amines - Synthesis and Function
  • cAMP cascade and other genes involved in behavior, learning, and memory
  • Calcium binding and calcium dependent enzymes and proteins
  • Cell cycle
  • Centomere and kinetochore proteins
  • Centrosomal/centriolar proteins and cilia and flagella
  • Channels
  • Chromatin structure
  • Courtship Conditioning and Behavior
  • Cytoskeleton
  • DIPs and Dprs
  • Dorsal-ventral polarity and BMP Signaling
  • DNA replication
  • DNA damage checkpoint, meiotic crossover, nondisjunction, and repair
  • Dpp signalling
  • Egf receptor signaling
  • Endoplasmic Reticulum and Vesicles
  • Enhancers and Cisregulation
  • Enhancer of Split complex
  • Extracellular matrix and the basement membrane
  • Fgf receptor signaling
  • Golgi apparatus
  • G-protein coupled receptors
  • Heat shock factor, heat shock protein, chaperones and chaperonins
  • Hedgehog pathway
  • Heterotrimeric G proteins
  • Hippo/Warts tumor suppressor pathway
  • Hormones and neuropeptides
  • Hunger, nutrition, metabolism, fat storage and homeostasis
  • Immune response
  • Insulin receptor signaling pathway - Growth response
  • Ionotropic receptors - Divergent ligand-gated ion channels
  • JAK/STAT signaling pathway
  • JNK pathway
  • Junctional proteins
    • Adherens junction
    • Neuromuscular junction
    • Septate junction
    • Integrin (focal adhesion, myotendinous) junction
  • Metabolism
  • Molting regulation
  • Myc-Max-Mad/Mnt network
  • Neuromuscular junction
  • Notch pathway - neurogenic genes
  • Nuclear Pore Complex and Nucleo-cytoplasmic transport
  • Odorant-binding proteins
  • Odorant receptors, olfactory receptor neurons, and olfactory learning
  • Oncogenes and Tumor Suppressors
  • Photoperiod Response and Sleep
  • Polycomb and Trithorax group proteins
  • Proneural proteins
  • Protein targeting, asymmetric cell division and cell polarity
  • Ras pathway
  • RNAi and posttranscriptional gene silencing
  • RNA polymerase and general transcription factors
  • Segment polarity
    • Hedgehog pathway
    • Wingless pathway
  • Sex determination and dosage compensation
  • RNA-binding proteins as Splicing and Developmental Regulators
  • Taste receptors and taste Processing: The antenna; labial palps, labellum, legs and subesophageal ganglion
  • Telomeres
  • Tissue polarity (Planar cell polarity)
  • Translation - Initiation and termination
  • Transposons
  • TOR pathway
  • Ubiquitination and protein degradation
  • Unfolded Protein Response
  • Vesicles and Endoplasmic Reticulum
  • Visual signal transduction
  • Wingless pathway

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