Organization of DNA sequences near the centromere of the Drosophila melanogaster Y chromosome

Chromosoma

Volumn 106, Issue 8, 1997, Pages 503-512

  Losada, Ana ^a,b   Abad, José P ^a   Villasante, Alfredo ^a  

^a CENTRO DE BIOLOGÍA MOLECULAR SEVERO OCHOA   (Spain)

^b Simons Center for Quantitative Biology   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONTIG; DNA;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CENTROMERE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA SEQUENCE; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; FEMALE; MALE; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; RETROPOSON; TELOMERE; Y CHROMOSOME; YEAST ARTIFICIAL CHROMOSOME;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CENTROMERE; CHROMOSOME MAPPING; CHROMOSOMES, ARTIFICIAL, YEAST; DNA; DNA TRANSPOSABLE ELEMENTS; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; DROSOPHILA PROTEINS; GENE PRODUCTS, GAG; INSECT PROTEINS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; RETROELEMENTS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; Y CHROMOSOME;

ANIMALIA; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; MELANOGASTER;

EID: 0031471471     PISSN: 00095915     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s004120050272     Document Type: Article

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