Genetic and molecular analysis of smooth, a quantitative trial locus affecting bristle number in Drosophila melanogaster

Genetics

Volumn 146, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 607-618

  Zur Lage, Petra ^a   Shrimpton, Antony D ^a,d   Flavell, Andrew J ^b   Mackay, Trudy F C ^c   Leigh Brown, Andrew J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF DUNDEE   (United Kingdom)

^c NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d SUNY UPSTATE MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RIBONUCLEOPROTEIN; RNA BINDING PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; GENE ISOLATION; GENE LOCUS; GENETIC VARIABILITY; MOLECULAR CLONING; MOLECULAR GENETICS; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT;

ABDOMEN; ALLELES; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CLONING, MOLECULAR; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; DROSOPHILA PROTEINS; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; GENES, INSECT; HETEROGENEOUS-NUCLEAR RIBONUCLEOPROTEINS; HUMANS; INSECT PROTEINS; MALE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTAGENESIS, INSERTIONAL; PHENOTYPE; PROTEIN BIOSYNTHESIS; RECEPTORS, CELL SURFACE; RECEPTORS, G-PROTEIN-COUPLED; RESTRICTION MAPPING; RIBONUCLEOPROTEINS; RNA-BINDING PROTEINS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; MELANOGASTER;

EID: 0030940266     PISSN: 00166731     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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