Dominant defects in Drosophila eye pigmentation resulting from a euchromatin-heterochromatin fusion gene

Genetics

Volumn 150, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 1551-1566

  Rong, Yikang S ^a   Golic, Kent G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF UTAH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GUANOSINE TRIPHOSPHATE; HEAT SHOCK PROTEIN 70; METHYLENETETRAHYDROFOLATE DEHYDROGENASE; PTERIDINE; REPETITIVE DNA; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VISUAL PIGMENT;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA SEQUENCE; DOMINANT GENE; DROSOPHILA; EUCHROMATIN; EYE COLOR; FEMALE; FUSION GENE; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; HETEROCHROMATIN; MALE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OMMOCHROME; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PURINE SYNTHESIS; RNA TRANSLATION;

ANIMALS; ARTIFICIAL GENE FUSION; CHROMATIN; CHROMOSOME MAPPING; CLONING, MOLECULAR; DINUCLEOTIDE REPEATS; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; EUCHROMATIN; EYE COLOR; GENES, DOMINANT; GENES, INSECT; HETEROCHROMATIN; MUTATION; PHENOTHIAZINES; PHENOTYPE; PIGMENTATION; PROTEIN BIOSYNTHESIS; PTERIDINES; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; TIME FACTORS; TRANSFORMATION, GENETIC;

ANIMALIA; HEXAPODA;

EID: 0031763038     PISSN: 00166731     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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