The Adh-related gene of Drosophila melanogaster is expressed as a functional dicistronic messenger RNA: Multigenic transcription in higher organisms

EMBO Journal

Volumn 16, Issue 8, 1997, Pages 2023-2031

  Brogna, Saverio ^a   Ashburner, Michael ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Dicistronic mRNA; Drosophila Adh; Gene duplication; Transcription; Translation

Indexed keywords

ALCOHOL DEHYDROGENASE; ANTIBODY; MESSENGER RNA;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CISTRON; CONTROLLED STUDY; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; NONHUMAN; OPEN READING FRAME; POLYSOME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; RNA PROCESSING; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION;

ALCOHOL DEHYDROGENASE; ANIMALS; ANTIBODY SPECIFICITY; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, ENZYMOLOGIC; GENES, INSECT; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTATION; ORGAN SPECIFICITY; POLYRIBOSOMES; RNA, MESSENGER; TEMPERATURE; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

ANIMALIA; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; EUKARYOTA; MELANOGASTER;

EID: 0030933005     PISSN: 02614189     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/emboj/16.8.2023     Document Type: Article

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