engrailed gene dosage determines whether certain recessive cubitus interruptus alleles exhibit dominance of the adult wing phenotype in Drosophila

Developmental Genetics

Volumn 19, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 340-349

  Locke, John ^a   Hanna, Scott ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

Author keywords

chromosome pairing; cubitus interruptus; Drosophila melanogaster; engrailed; genetic interactions; pairing dependent gene repression; position effects; segment polarity genes; synthetic enhancement

Indexed keywords

ALLELE; ARTICLE; CHROMOSOME PAIRING; DROSOPHILA; FORELIMB; GENE DOSAGE; GENE REPRESSION; LETHAL GENE; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECESSIVE GENE;

ALLELES; ANIMALS; CHROMOSOME MAPPING; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; DROSOPHILA PROTEINS; GENE DOSAGE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; GENE REARRANGEMENT; GENES, DOMINANT; GENES, INSECT; GENES, RECESSIVE; HETEROZYGOTE; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEINS; HOMOZYGOTE; INSECT HORMONES; MUTATION; PHENOTYPE; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; VEINS; WING;

EID: 0030455237     PISSN: 0192253X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1520-6408(1996)19:4<340::AID-DVG7>3.0.CO;2-9     Document Type: Article

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