One-to-one correspondence between the two genetic units and the tandemly duplicated transcriptional units of the polyhomeotic locus of Drosophila

Molecular and General Genetics

Volumn 261, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 196-200

  Boivin, A ^a   Fauvarque, M O ^a,c   Dura, J M ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ PARIS SACLAY   (France)

^b CNRS   (France)

^c CEA GRENOBLE   (France)

Author keywords

Duplicated gene; Polycomb group genes; X ray induced deletion

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; DELETION MUTANT; DROSOPHILA; GENE LOCUS; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; HOMEOBOX; MOLECULAR BIOLOGY; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION MUTAGENESIS; TANDEM REPEAT; X RAY;

ALLELES; ANIMALS; BLOTTING, SOUTHERN; DNA; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; DROSOPHILA; DROSOPHILA PROTEINS; FEMALE; GENE DUPLICATION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENOTYPE; MALE; MUTAGENESIS; MUTATION; NUCLEOPROTEINS; TANDEM REPEAT SEQUENCES; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC; X-RAYS;

EID: 0032981781     PISSN: 00268925     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s004380050957     Document Type: Article

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