Conserved regions of the timeless (tim) clock gene in Drosophila analyzed through phylogenetic and functional studies

Genetics

Volumn 148, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 815-825

  Ousley, Andrea ^a   Zafarullah, Khaja ^a   Chen, Yifeng ^a   Emerson, Mark ^a   Hickman, Lesley ^a   Sehgal, Amita ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; DROSOPHILA VIRILIS; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE SEQUENCE; NONHUMAN; PHYLOGENY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DOMAIN;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL CLOCKS; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; CLONING, MOLECULAR; CONSERVED SEQUENCE; DROSOPHILA; DROSOPHILA PROTEINS; INSECT PROTEINS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NUCLEAR PROTEINS; PHYLOGENY; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SEQUENCE DELETION; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; TRANSGENES;

ANIMALIA; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; DROSOPHILA SIMULANS; DROSOPHILA VIRILIS; DROSOPHILA YAKUBA; HEXAPODA; MAMMALIA; MELANOGASTER;

EID: 0031934359     PISSN: 00166731     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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