Nucleotide variation and conservation at the dpp locus, a gene controlling early development in Drosophila

Genetics

Volumn 145, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 311-323

  Richter, Brent ^a   Long, Manyuan ^a   Lewontin, R C ^a   Nitasaka, Eiji ^a,b  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b KYUSHU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA POLYMORPHISM; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; GENE CONTROL; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE LOCUS; GENETIC ANALYSIS; MOLECULAR CLONING; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CONSERVED SEQUENCE; DNA; DROSOPHILA; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; DROSOPHILA PROTEINS; GENES, INSECT; HAPLOTYPES; INSECT PROTEINS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; VARIATION (GENETICS);

DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; DROSOPHILA SIMULANS; MELANOGASTER;

EID: 0031022635     PISSN: 00166731     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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