Structure and expression of wild-type and suppressible alleles of the Drosophila purple gene

Genetics

Volumn 142, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 1157-1168

  Kim, Nacksung ^a,b   Kim, Jaeseob ^b,c   Park, Dongkook ^a   Rosen, Christina ^b   Dorsett, Dale ^b   Yim, John ^a  

^a Seoul National University   (South Korea)

^b MEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING CANCER CENTER   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DYSPROPTERIN; MESSENGER RNA; SYNTHETASE;

ALLELE; ARTICLE; DROSOPHILA; ENZYME ACTIVITY; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE STRUCTURE; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RNA ANALYSIS;

ALCOHOL OXIDOREDUCTASES; ALLELES; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CHROMOSOME WALKING; DNA PRIMERS; DROSOPHILA; EYE COLOR; GENE EXPRESSION; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHOSPHORUS-OXYGEN LYASES; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; SUPPRESSION, GENETIC;

EID: 0029928167     PISSN: 00166731     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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