Point mutations within and outside the homeodomain identify sequences required for proboscipedia homeotic function in Drosophila

Genetics

Volumn 146, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 939-949

  Benassayag, Corinne ^a   Boube, Muriel ^a   Seroude, Laurent ^b   Cribbs, David L ^a  

^a CNRS   (France)

^b CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARGININE; HEAT SHOCK PROTEIN 70; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEIN;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANTENNA; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOMINANT GENE; DROSOPHILA; EVOLUTION; EYE DEVELOPMENT; FEMALE; GENE FUNCTION; HOMEOBOX; MALE; MOUTH; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; POINT MUTATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVERTANT; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; TRANSGENIC ANIMAL;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BINDING SITES; CONSERVED SEQUENCE; DROSOPHILA; DROSOPHILA PROTEINS; FEMALE; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEINS; INSECT PROTEINS; MALE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHENOTYPE; POINT MUTATION; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

ANIMALIA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 0030815987     PISSN: 00166731     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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