Surfeit locus gene homologs are widely distributed in invertebrate genomes

Molecular and Cellular Biology

Volumn 16, Issue 10, 1996, Pages 5591-5596

  Armes, Niall ^a   Fried, Mike ^a  

^a IMPERIAL CANCER RESEARCH FUND   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CHROMOSOMAL LOCALIZATION; CHROMOSOME POLYMORPHISM; DNA DETERMINATION; DNA SEQUENCE; DNA STRUCTURE; DNA TRANSCRIPTION; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; GENE AMPLIFICATION; GENE CLUSTER; GENE LOCUS; GENE SEQUENCE; GENOME; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; INVERTEBRATE; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ANIMALIA; AVES; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; INVERTEBRATA; MAMMALIA; MELANOGASTER; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 0029834254     PISSN: 02707306     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/MCB.16.10.5591     Document Type: Article

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