Detection of individual variation in enzyme activity in natural populations of Drosophila melanogaster

Hereditas

Volumn 128, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 145-151

  Pecsenye, Katalin ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DEBRECEN   (Hungary)

^b UMEÅ UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALCOHOL DEHYDROGENASE; GLYCEROL 3 PHOSPHATE DEHYDROGENASE; ISOCITRATE DEHYDROGENASE; PHOSPHOGLUCONATE DEHYDROGENASE;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; ELECTROPHORESIS; ENZYME ACTIVITY; FEMALE; GENE LOCUS; GENETIC VARIABILITY; NATURAL POPULATION; NONHUMAN; OPTICAL DENSITY; PHENOTYPE; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

ANIMALIA; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; MELANOGASTER;

EID: 0031833722     PISSN: 00180661     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1601-5223.1998.00145.x     Document Type: Article

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