Roles of rDNA spacer and transcription unit-sequences in X-Y meiotic chromosome pairing in Drosophila melanogaster males

Chromosoma

Volumn 106, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 29-36

  Ren, Xiao Jia ^a   Eisenhour, Lynn ^a   Hong, Chia Sin ^a   Lee, Yunsang ^a   McKee, Bruce D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RIBOSOME DNA; SPACER DNA;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CHROMOSOME PAIRING; CONTROLLED STUDY; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; FEMALE; GENE INSERTION; HETEROCHROMATIN; MALE; MEIOSIS; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; TRANSPOSON; X CHROMOSOME; Y CHROMOSOME;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; BLOTTING, SOUTHERN; CLONING, MOLECULAR; DNA TRANSPOSABLE ELEMENTS; DNA, RIBOSOMAL; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; FEMALE; GENE REARRANGEMENT; MALE; MEIOSIS; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); REPETITIVE SEQUENCES, NUCLEIC ACID; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 28S; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SEQUENCE DELETION; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC; VARIATION (GENETICS); X CHROMOSOME; Y CHROMOSOME;

ANIMALIA; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; MELANOGASTER;

EID: 0030793907     PISSN: 00095915     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s004120050221     Document Type: Article

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