The Afrotropical Drosophila montium subgroup: Balbiani ring 1, polytene chromosomes, and heat shock response of Drosophila vulcana

Genome

Volumn 39, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 588-597

  Pardali, E ^a   Feggou, E ^a   Drosopoulou, E ^a   Konstantopoulou, I ^a   Scouras, Z G ^a   Mavragani Tsipidou, P ^a  

^a ARISTOTLE UNIVERSITY OF THESSALONIKI   (Greece)

Author keywords

Balbiani ring; Drosophila; Genes; Heat shock; hsp70 single locus; Polytene chromosomes; Proteins; Puffs

Indexed keywords

DROSOPHILA MONTIUM; DROSOPHILA VULCANA; MELANOGASTER; MONTIUM SUBGROUP; NEPTUNIA;

ECDYSONE; HEAT SHOCK PROTEIN;

AFRICA; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CHROMOSOME; CLASSIFICATION; DROSOPHILA; GENE; GENE REARRANGEMENT; GENETICS; HEAT SHOCK RESPONSE; PHYSIOLOGY;

AFRICA; ANIMALS; CHROMOSOMES; DROSOPHILA; ECDYSONE; GENE REARRANGEMENT; GENES, INSECT; HEAT-SHOCK PROTEINS; HEAT-SHOCK RESPONSE;

EID: 0030160337     PISSN: 08312796     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1139/g96-074     Document Type: Article

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