Molecular study of the germinal reversions induced at the white-ivory locus in Drosophila melanogaster

Mutagenesis

Volumn 11, Issue 6, 1996, Pages 559-563

  Suarez S ^a   Cabre O ^a   Velazquez A ^a   Creus, A ^a   Marcos, R ^a   Xamena, N ^a  

^a UNIVERSITAT AUTÒNOMA DE BARCELONA   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALKYLATING AGENT; DNA; ETHYLNITROSOUREA; MESYLIC ACID ETHYL ESTER; MESYLIC ACID METHYL ESTER;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA SEQUENCE; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; GENE DELETION; GERM LINE; NONHUMAN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECESSIVE GENE; REVERTANT; SOMATIC MUTATION; SOUTHERN BLOTTING; X CHROMOSOME LINKAGE;

ANIMALIA; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; MELANOGASTER;

EID: 0029858516     PISSN: 02678357     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/mutage/11.6.559     Document Type: Article

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