Microevolutionary divergence pattern of the segmentation gene hunchback in Drosophila

Molecular Biology and Evolution

Volumn 15, Issue 11, 1998, Pages 1403-1411

  Tautz, Diethard ^a   Nigro, Loredana ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Codon usage; Developmental evolution; Drosophila; Hunchback; Regulatory evolution; Segmentation genes

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CODON; DROSOPHILA; EMBRYO SEGMENTATION; EVOLUTION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC CONSERVATION; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; ANIMAL; CHROMOSOME MAP; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; FEMALE; GENETIC POLYMORPHISM; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENETICS; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MORPHOGENESIS; MUTATION; POPULATION DYNAMICS; PRENATAL DEVELOPMENT; SPECIES DIFFERENCE;

DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; DROSOPHILA ORENA; DROSOPHILA SECHELLIA; DROSOPHILA YAKUBA; MELANOGASTER;

DNA; DNA BINDING PROTEIN; DROSOPHILA PROTEIN; HUNCHBACK PROTEIN, DROSOPHILA; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

ANIMALS; BODY PATTERNING; CHROMOSOME MAPPING; CODON; DNA; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; DROSOPHILA; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; DROSOPHILA PROTEINS; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; MUTATION; POLYMORPHISM, GENETIC; POPULATION DYNAMICS; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; VARIATION (GENETICS);

EID: 0031729289     PISSN: 07374038     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/oxfordjournals.molbev.a025868     Document Type: Article

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