The Y chromosomal fertility factor Threads in Drosophila hydei harbors functional gene encoding an axonemal dynein β heavy chain protein

Genetics

Volumn 149, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 1363-1376

  Kurek, Roman ^a   Reugels, Alexander M ^b   Glätzer, Karl Heinz ^b   Bünemann, Hans ^b  

^a SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

^b HEINRICH HEINE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DYNEIN ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATASE;

ARTICLE; AXONEME; DROSOPHILA HYDEI; FERTILITY; GENE ISOLATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; Y CHROMOSOME;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CHROMOSOME MAPPING; CLONING, ORGANISM; CROSSES, GENETIC; DNA PRIMERS; DROSOPHILA; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; DYNEIN ATPASE; FEMALE; FERTILITY; GENES, INSECT; MACROMOLECULAR SUBSTANCES; MALE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; TESTIS; Y CHROMOSOME;

DROSOPHILA HYDEI; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; MELANOGASTER; TRIPNEUSTES GRATILLA;

EID: 0031857749     PISSN: 00166731     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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