A quantitative measure of the mitotic pairing of alleles in Drosophila melanogaster and the influence of structural heterozygosity

Genetics

Volumn 143, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 385-400

  Golic, Mary M ^a   Golic, Kent G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF UTAH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALLELE; ARTICLE; BASE PAIRING; CELL DIVISION; CHROMOSOME PAIRING; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; GENE DISRUPTION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE REARRANGEMENT; GENETIC HETEROGENEITY; HETEROZYGOSITY; MITOSIS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; CELL CYCLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA RECOMBINATION; HOMOLOGOUS CHROMOSOME; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS;

ALLELES; ANIMALS; CELL CYCLE; CHROMOSOME MAPPING; CROSSES, GENETIC; DNA NUCLEOTIDYLTRANSFERASES; DNA TRANSPOSABLE ELEMENTS; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; EMBRYO, NONMAMMALIAN; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; GENES, INSECT; HEAT-SHOCK PROTEINS; HETEROZYGOTE; INVERSION, CHROMOSOME; MALE; MITOSIS; MUTATION; RECOMBINATION, GENETIC;

EID: 0029967588     PISSN: 00166731     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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