Table 8 Maternal specification of embryonic anterior-posterior axis

bicoid (bcd)

N

bicoid-interacting protein 3 (bin3)

Y

orthodenticle; Drosophila ocelliless (oc; otd)

Y

larp1 (larp1)

Y

exuperantia (exu)

Y

Eukaryotic initiation factor 4E; similar to Bombyx mori Eukaryotic initiation factor 4E-2 (eIF4E)

Y

swallow; fs(1)1502 (swa)

N

argonaute 2 (AGO2)

Y

maternal expression at 31B (me31B)

Y

caudal (cad)

Y

staufen (stau)

Y

hunchback (hb)

N

muscle excess 3 (mex-3)

Y