A testis-specifically expressed gene is embedded within a cluster of maternally expressed genes at 89B in Drosophila melanogaster

Development Genes and Evolution

Volumn 208, Issue 9, 1998, Pages 523-530

  Stebbings, Lucy ^b   Grimes, Brenda R ^c   Bownes, Mary ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SUSSEX   (United Kingdom)

^c WESTERN GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Maternally expressed genes; Oogenesis; Spermatogenesis; Testis specific gene expression; Translational control elements

Indexed keywords

COMPLEMENTARY DNA; MESSENGER RNA;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; DNA SEQUENCE; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; FEMALE; GENE CLUSTER; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE LOCATION; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; MALE; MOLECULAR CLONING; MOTHER; NONHUMAN; NORTHERN BLOTTING; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OOCYTE; OOCYTE DEVELOPMENT; OVARY; OVARY FOLLICLE CELL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPERMATOGENESIS; TESTIS; TISSUE SPECIFICITY;

3' UNTRANSLATED REGIONS; 5' UNTRANSLATED REGIONS; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; DNA, COMPLEMENTARY; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; MALE; MULTIGENE FAMILY; OVARY; RNA, MESSENGER; TESTIS;

ANIMALIA; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; HEXAPODA; MELANOGASTER;

EID: 0031761683     PISSN: 0949944X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s004270050211     Document Type: Article

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