The autosomal chorion locus of the medfly Ceratitis capitata. I. Conserved synteny, amplification and tissue specificity but sequence divergence and altered temporal regulation

Genetics

Volumn 147, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 1829-1842

  Vlachou, Dina ^a   Konsolaki, Mary ^b   Tolias, Peter P ^c   Kafatos, Fotis C ^d   Komitopoulou, Katia ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

^b PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c PUBLIC HEALTH RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^d EUROPEAN MOLECULAR BIOLOGY LABORATORY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPLEMENTARY DNA; PARAMYOSIN; TYROSINE;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; AUTOSOME; CHORION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; FEMALE; FLY; GENE AMPLIFICATION; GENE CLUSTER; GENE LOCUS; GENE SEQUENCE; MALE; NONHUMAN; OOCYTE DEVELOPMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TIME PERCEPTION; TISSUE SPECIFICITY;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CHROMOSOME MAPPING; CONSERVED SEQUENCE; DIPTERA; DNA, COMPLEMENTARY; EGG PROTEINS; FEMALE; GENE AMPLIFICATION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENES, INSECT; INSECT PROTEINS; MALE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MULTIGENE FAMILY; OVARY; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID;

ANIMALIA; CAPITATA; CERATITIS CAPITATA; DIPTERA; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; MELANOGASTER;

EID: 0030834531     PISSN: 00166731     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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