Complex alterations of the ribosomal gene spacers in mutant sc8 of Drosophila melanogaster

Chromosoma

Volumn 106, Issue 6, 1997, Pages 361-368

  Markova, Boyka A ^a   Mironova, Roumjana S ^a   Grantcharova, Milena L ^a   Georgiev, Oleg G ^b   Semionov, Eugene P ^a,c  

^a INSTITUTE OF MOLECULAR BIOLOGY   (Bulgaria)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^c PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RIBOSOME DNA; SPACER DNA;

ARTICLE; CHROMOSOME BREAKAGE; CHROMOSOME POLYMORPHISM; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; GENE REARRANGEMENT; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; INTERSTITIAL CHROMOSOME DELETION; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; RESTRICTION MAPPING; X CHROMOSOME;

ANIMALS; DNA, RIBOSOMAL; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; MUTATION; POLYMORPHISM, GENETIC; RECOMBINATION, GENETIC; REPETITIVE SEQUENCES, NUCLEIC ACID; RESTRICTION MAPPING; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 18S; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 28S; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, NUCLEIC ACID; VARIATION (GENETICS); X CHROMOSOME; Y CHROMOSOME;

EID: 0030828074     PISSN: 00095915     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s004120050257     Document Type: Article

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