Analysis of two cosmid clones from chromosome 4 of Drosophila melanogaster reveals two new genes amid an unusual arrangement of repeated sequences

Genome Research

Volumn 9, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 137-149

  Locke, John ^a   Podemski, Lynn ^a   Roy, Ken ^a   Pilgrim, David ^a   Hodgetts, Ross ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

REPETITIVE DNA; RIBOSOME PROTEIN; SCATTER FACTOR RECEPTOR;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; CHROMOSOME 4; COSMID; DNA HYBRIDIZATION; DNA SEQUENCE; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; EXON; GENE LOCUS; GENE SEQUENCE; HETEROCHROMATIN; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POLYTENE CHROMOSOME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FAMILY;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CHROMOSOMES; COSMIDS; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; GENES, INSECT; MICE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MULTIGENE FAMILY; REPETITIVE SEQUENCES, NUCLEIC ACID; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, NUCLEIC ACID;

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