P element sequences can compensate for a deletion of the yellow regulatory region in Drosophila melanogaster

Molecular and General Genetics

Volumn 259, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 79-87

  Belenkaya, T ^a,b   Barseguyan, K ^a,c   Hovhannisyan, H ^a,c   Biryukova, I ^a   Kochieva, E Z ^d   Georgiev, P ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF GENE BIOLOGY   (Russian Federation)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

^c INTERNATIONAL CENTRE FOR GENETIC ENGINEERING AND BIOTECHNOLOGY   (Italy)

^d RUSSIAN STATE AGRARIAN UNIVERSITY   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

Drosophila; Gypsy; P element; Transcription control; Yellow

Indexed keywords

CIS ACTING ELEMENT;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA SEQUENCE; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; GENE DELETION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REGULATOR GENE; START CODON; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION; TRANSPOSON;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; DNA TRANSPOSABLE ELEMENTS; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; DROSOPHILA PROTEINS; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENES, INSECT; INSECT PROTEINS; MALE; REGULATORY SEQUENCES, NUCLEIC ACID; REPETITIVE SEQUENCES, NUCLEIC ACID; SEQUENCE DELETION; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; MELANOGASTER;

EID: 0031714912     PISSN: 00268925     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s004380050791     Document Type: Article

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