A putative blue-light receptor from Drosophila melanogaster

Photochemistry and Photobiology

Volumn 69, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 108-113

  Okano, Satoshi ^a,b   Kanno, Shin Ichiro ^a   Takao, Masashi ^a   Eker, Andre P M ^c   Isono, Kunio ^a   Tsukahara, Yasuo ^a   Yasui, Akira ^a  

^a TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b INST OF PHYS AND CHEMICAL RESEARCH   (Japan)

^c ERASMUS MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; EMBRYOPHYTA; ESCHERICHIA COLI; MAMMALIA; MELANOGASTER;

DEOXYRIBODIPYRIMIDINE PHOTOLYASE; PRIMER DNA;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIOLOGY; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; ENZYMOLOGY; GENE; GENETICS; MOLECULAR CLONING; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHOTORECEPTOR; PHYLOGENY;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CLONING, MOLECULAR; DEOXYRIBODIPYRIMIDINE PHOTO-LYASE; DNA PRIMERS; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; GENES, INSECT; PHOTOBIOLOGY; PHOTORECEPTORS, INVERTEBRATE; PHYLOGENY;

EID: 0032618132     PISSN: 00318655     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1751-1097.1999.tb05314.x     Document Type: Article

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