The sugarless mutation affects the expression of the white eye color gene in Drosophila melanogaster

Molecular and General Genetics

Volumn 260, Issue 2-3, 1998, Pages 131-143

  Benevolenskaya, E V ^a   Frolov, M V ^a   Birchler, J A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI   (United States)

Author keywords

Glycosaminoglycans; Sugarless gene; UDP glucose dehydrogenase; White gene; Wingless signaling

Indexed keywords

GROWTH FACTOR; SUGAR; URIDINE DIPHOSPHATE GLUCOSE DEHYDROGENASE;

ARTICLE; CATTLE; DNA FLANKING REGION; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; EYE COLOR; FORELIMB; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE INSERTION SEQUENCE; GENE LOCUS; GENE MUTATION; GENE OVEREXPRESSION; GENETIC CODE; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHENOTYPE; PIGMENTATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

ALLELES; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; ATP-BINDING CASSETTE TRANSPORTERS; CATTLE; CLONING, MOLECULAR; DNA TRANSPOSABLE ELEMENTS; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; DROSOPHILA PROTEINS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; EYE PROTEINS; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; GENES, SUPPRESSOR; INSECT PROTEINS; MALE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTATION; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; URIDINE DIPHOSPHATE GLUCOSE DEHYDROGENASE;

BOS TAURUS; BOVINAE; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; ERINACEIDAE; MELANOGASTER; PRUNUS ARMENIACA; ZOSTEROPIDAE;

EID: 0031767628     PISSN: 00268925     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s004380050879     Document Type: Article

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