Effect of polymorphism in the Drosophila regulatory gene Ultrabithorax on homeotic stability

Science

Volumn 271, Issue 5246, 1996, Pages 200-203

  Gibson, Greg ^a   Hogness, David S ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; DNA POLYMORPHISM; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC STABILITY; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HOMEOBOX; HOMEOSTASIS; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REGULATOR GENE;

ALLELES; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; DROSOPHILA PROTEINS; ETHER, ETHYL; FEMALE; GENES, HOMEOBOX; GENES, REGULATOR; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEINS; HOMEOSTASIS; LINKAGE DISEQUILIBRIUM; MALE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTATION; NUCLEIC ACID HETERODUPLEXES; PHENOTYPE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; POLYMORPHISM, GENETIC; SELECTION (GENETICS); TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

EID: 0030049153     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.271.5246.200     Document Type: Article

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36. We thank B. Charlesworth and G. Spicer for supplying us with the lves strains, M. Bender for assistance in the early stages, and R. Fuller and C. Goodnow for the use of their PCR machines. G.G. particularly thanks W. Watt, M. Feldman, and J. Adams for their support and advice and D. Pollock, M. Montano, D. Andrew, and members of the Feldman and Hogness laboratories for comments and discussions. Supported by grants from the Rackham Graduate School of the University of Michigan and by grants to D.S.H from the National Institutes of Health. G.G. was supported by a postdoctoral fellowship from the Helen Hay Whitney Foundation.