Genetic and molecular characterization of sting, a gene involved in crystal formation and meiotic drive in the male germ line of Drosophila melanogaster

Genetics

Volumn 151, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 749-760

  Schmidt, Armin ^a   Palumbo, Gioacchino ^b   Bozzetti, Maria P ^b   Tritto, Patrizia ^c   Pimpinelli, Sergio ^c   Schäfer, Ulrich ^a,d  

^a HEINRICH HEINE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BARI   (Italy)

^c SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

^d MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR BIOPHYSICAL CHEMISTRY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALLELE; ARTICLE; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; CONSENSUS SEQUENCE; CRYSTAL; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; GENE LOCUS; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GERM LINE; MALE STERILITY; MEIOSIS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PENETRANCE; POLYTENE CHROMOSOME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEX CHROMOSOME; SPERMATID; SPERMATOCYTE; Y CHROMOSOME;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; DROSOPHILA PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENES, INSECT; INFERTILITY, MALE; MALE; MEIOSIS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTATION; PHOSPHOPROTEIN PHOSPHATASE; PROTEIN-TYROSINE-PHOSPHATASE; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SPERMATOCYTES; Y CHROMOSOME;

DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; MELANOGASTER;

EID: 0032955004     PISSN: 00166731     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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