Morewright (mwr), a new meiotic mutant of Drosophila melanogaster affecting nonexchange chromosome segregation

Genetics

Volumn 144, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 1725-1734

  Rasooly, Rebekah S ^a  

^a ST JOHN'S UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHROMOSOME REARRANGEMENT; CHROMOSOME SEGREGATION; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; ENHANCER REGION; MEIOSIS; MUTANT; NONDISJUNCTION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECESSIVE GENE;

ANIMALS; CHROMOSOME MAPPING; DNA TRANSPOSABLE ELEMENTS; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; FEMALE; GENES, INSECT; INSECT PROTEINS; MEIOSIS; MUTATION; RECOMBINATION, GENETIC;

DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; MELANOGASTER;

EID: 0030468181     PISSN: 00166731     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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