Clustered organization and conservation of the Xiphophorus maculatus D locus, which includes two distinct gene sequences

Chromosoma

Volumn 105, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 242-249

  Nanda, Indrajit ^a   Weis, Silke ^a   Förnzler, Dorothee ^a,b   Altschmied, Joachim ^a   Schartl, Manfred ^a   Schmid, Michael ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WÜRZBURG   (Germany)

^b BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ZINC FINGER PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CHROMOSOMAL LOCALIZATION; FISH; FLUORESCENCE IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; GENE CLUSTER; GENE SEQUENCE; NONHUMAN; SOUTHERN BLOTTING;

CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; POECILIA; POECILIIDAE; XIPHOPHORUS; XIPHOPHORUS MACULATUS;

EID: 0029816683     PISSN: 00095915     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF02528773     Document Type: Article

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