Selective sweep of a newly evolved sperm-specific gene in Drosophila

Nature

Volumn 396, Issue 6711, 1998, Pages 572-575

  Nurminsky, Dmitry I ^a   Nurminskaya, Maria V ^b   De Aguiar, Daniel ^a   Hartl, Daniel L ^a  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b TUFTS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID; ANNEXIN; COMPLEMENTARY DNA; DNA; DYNEIN ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATASE; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN; HYBRID PROTEIN; MESSENGER RNA; NUCLEOTIDE; PROTEIN;

ALLELE; ARTICLE; AXONEME; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; EXON; GENE; GENE CONTROL; GENETIC POLYMORPHISM; GENETIC VARIABILITY; MALE; MUTATION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPERM; TESTIS;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; ANIMALS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; ANNEXINS; ARTIFICIAL GENE FUSION; BASE SEQUENCE; DNA; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; DROSOPHILA PROTEINS; DYNEIN ATPASE; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENES, INSECT; INSECT PROTEINS; MALE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); RECOMBINANT FUSION PROTEINS; SELECTION (GENETICS); SEQUENCE DELETION; SPERMATOZOA; TESTIS;

DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; HEXAPODA; MELANOGASTER;

EID: 0032506534     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/25126     Document Type: Article

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