A Drosophila melanogaster hobo-white+ vector mediates low frequency gene transfer in D. virilis with full interspecific white+ complementation

Insect Molecular Biology

Volumn 6, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 165-171

  Gomez, S P ^a   Handler, A M ^a  

^a CENTER FOR MEDICAL   (United States)

Author keywords

Drosophila virilis; germline transformation; hobo vector; transposable elements; white eye gene

Indexed keywords

ANIMALIA; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; DROSOPHILA VIRILIS; INSECTA; MELANOGASTER; ZOSTEROPIDAE;

EID: 0031149236     PISSN: 09621075     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2583.1997.tb00084.x     Document Type: Article

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