Naturally occurring genetic variation affects Drosophila photoreceptor determination

Development Genes and Evolution

Volumn 207, Issue 7, 1998, Pages 462-470

  Polaczyk, Patricia J ^a,b   Gasperini, Robert ^a   Gibson, Greg ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

Drosophila; EGF receptor; Genetic variation; Photoreceptor; Sevenless

Indexed keywords

TYROSINE KINASE RECEPTOR;

ALLELE; ARTICLE; DROSOPHILA; FEMALE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOTYPE; MALE; NONHUMAN; PHOTORECEPTOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TRANSGENE;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; CROSSES, GENETIC; DROSOPHILA; DROSOPHILA PROTEINS; EYE PROTEINS; FEMALE; MALE; MEMBRANE GLYCOPROTEINS; PHENOTYPE; PHOTORECEPTORS, INVERTEBRATE; PROTEIN KINASES; RECEPTOR PROTEIN-TYROSINE KINASES; RECEPTOR, EPIDERMAL GROWTH FACTOR; RECEPTORS, INVERTEBRATE PEPTIDE; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; VARIATION (GENETICS);

HEXAPODA;

EID: 0031932725     PISSN: 0949944X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s004270050137     Document Type: Article

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