quemao, a Drosophila bristle locus, encodes geranylgeranyl pyrophosphate synthase

Genetics

Volumn 149, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 1051-1061

  Lai, Chaoqiang ^a,d   McMahon, Robert ^b   Young, Chi ^a,e   Mackay, Trudy F C ^c   Langley, Charles H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b ADDENBROOKE S HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^c NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d Thermo Fisher Scientific   (United States)

^e MERCK RESEARCH LABORATORIES   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA; FARNESYL TRANS TRANSFERASE; RNA;

ADOLESCENT; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BIOSYNTHESIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA SEQUENCE; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; EMBRYO; GENE LOCUS; LETHAL MUTANT; NONHUMAN; NONSENSE MUTATION; NORTHERN BLOTTING; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHENOTYPE; POLYTENE CHROMOSOME; PRENYLATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TRANSPOSON;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; BLOTTING, NORTHERN; CHROMOSOME MAPPING; CLONING, MOLECULAR; DIMETHYLALLYLTRANSTRANSFERASE; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; FEMALE; GENES, INSECT; INSECT PROTEINS; MALE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTATION; PHENOTYPE; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC; TRANSFORMATION, GENETIC;

EID: 0031779672     PISSN: 00166731     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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