An eye imaginal disc-specific transcriptional enhancer in the long terminal repeat of the tom retrotransposon is responsible for eye morphology mutations of Drosophila ananassae

Molecular and General Genetics

Volumn 251, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 161-166

  Awasaki, Takeshi ^a,b   Juni, Naoto ^a,c   Yoshida, Kiyohito M ^a  

^a HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY OF EDUCATION   (Japan)

^c MITSUBISHI KASEI INST OF LIFE SCI   (Japan)

Author keywords

Drosophila ananassae; Eye morphogenesis; Om mutations; Retrotransposon; tom element

Indexed keywords

TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DROSOPHILA; EYE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE MAPPING; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENOME; IMAGINAL DISC; LARVA; LONG TERMINAL REPEAT; MORPHOGENESIS; MORPHOLOGY; MUTATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROPOSON;

ANIMALS; DROSOPHILA; ENHANCER ELEMENTS (GENETICS); EYE; EYE PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; MUTATION; REPETITIVE SEQUENCES, NUCLEIC ACID; RETROELEMENTS; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

EID: 0030004449     PISSN: 00268925     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s004380050153     Document Type: Article

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