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This review focuses on transcriptional corepressors in the early embryo of the fruit fly Drosophila melanogaster, but also considers their roles in other developmental contexts, as well as related proteins in other organisms.
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Mannervik, M. (2001). Corepressor Proteins in Drosophila Development. In: Privalsky, M.L. (eds) Transcriptional Corepressors: Mediators of Eukaryotic Gene Repression. Current Topics in Microbiology and Immunology, vol 254. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-10595-5_4
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