Cloning and characterization of the scute (sc) gene of drosophila subobscura

Genetics

Volumn 144, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 1043-1051

  Botella, L M ^a   Donoro C ^b   Sanchez L ^a   Segarra, C ^a   Granadino, B ^b  

^a CENTRO DE INVESTIGACIONES BIOLÓGICAS   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; ARTICLE; DROSOPHILA; GENE LOCATION; GENE SEQUENCE; MOLECULAR CLONING; NERVOUS SYSTEM DEVELOPMENT; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DNA BINDING; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SEX DETERMINATION; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; ANIMAL; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; GENE; GENETICS; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; TRANSGENIC ANIMAL;

DNA; DNA BINDING PROTEIN; DROSOPHILA PROTEIN; RNA; SCUTE PROTEIN, DROSOPHILA; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; ANIMALS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; BASE SEQUENCE; CLONING, MOLECULAR; DNA; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; DROSOPHILA; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; DROSOPHILA PROTEINS; GENES, INSECT; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; RNA; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

EID: 0030278815     PISSN: 00166731     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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