Interactions between cut wing mutations and mutations in zeste, and the enhancer of yellow and Polycomb group genes of Drosophila melanogaster

Molecular and General Genetics

Volumn 252, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 230-236

  Melnikova, Larisa ^a   Kulikov, Aleksey ^a   Georgiev, Pavel ^a,b  

^a INSTITUTE OF GENE BIOLOGY   (Russian Federation)

^b ENGELHARDT INSTITUTE OF MOLECULAR BIOLOGY   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

Cut; Drosophila; Polycomb; su(Hw); Zeste

Indexed keywords

ALLELE; ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DROSOPHILA; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; ENHANCER REGION; FORELIMB; GENE DELETION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE LOCUS; GENE MUTATION; GENE REPRESSION; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

ANIMALIA; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; MELANOGASTER;

EID: 0029792966     PISSN: 00268925     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF02173768     Document Type: Article

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