Phenotypic reversion of the gypsy-induced mutation scD1 of Drosophila melanogaster by replicative transposition of a sc enhancer to the yellow gene and by mutations in the enhancer of yellow and zeste loci

Molecular Genetics and Genomics

Volumn 253, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 370-376

  Gause, M ^a   Georgieva, S ^a,b   Georgiev, P ^a,c  

^a INSTITUTE OF GENE BIOLOGY   (Russian Federation)

^b KOL TSOV INSTITUTE OF DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY   (Russian Federation)

^c ENGELHARDT INSTITUTE OF MOLECULAR BIOLOGY   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

Drosophila; Enhancer; gypsy; Jockey; Scute

Indexed keywords

ALLELE; ARTICLE; DNA TRANSPOSITION; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; ENHANCER REGION; GENE INSERTION; GENE LOCUS; GENE MUTATION; GENE REPLICATION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; REVERTANT;

ALLELES; ANIMALS; DNA TRANSPOSABLE ELEMENTS; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; DROSOPHILA PROTEINS; ENHANCER ELEMENTS (GENETICS); INSECT HORMONES; MULTIGENE FAMILY; MUTATION; NUCLEAR PROTEINS; PHENOTYPE; POINT MUTATION; REPRESSOR PROTEINS; RESTRICTION MAPPING; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

EID: 0030451031     PISSN: 16174615     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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