Interactions of Drosophila Ultrabithorax regulatory regions with native and foreign promoters

Genetics

Volumn 145, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 123-137

  Casares, Fernando ^a,d   Bender, Welcome ^b   Merriam, John ^c   Sánchez Herrero, Ernesto ^b  

^a UNIVERSIDAD AUTÓNOMA DE MADRID   (Spain)

^b HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; DROSOPHILA; GENE CONTROL; GENE DELETION; GENE INSERTION; MOLECULAR INTERACTION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION;

ANIMALS; DNA TRANSPOSABLE ELEMENTS; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; DROSOPHILA; DROSOPHILA PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEINS; HOMEOSTASIS; INTRONS; LAC OPERON; MUTAGENESIS; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); RECOMBINANT FUSION PROTEINS; REGULATORY SEQUENCES, NUCLEIC ACID; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

EID: 0031016569     PISSN: 00166731     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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