Isolation and characterization of drosocrystallin, a lens crystallin gene of Drosophila melanogaster

Developmental Biology

Volumn 207, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 204-214

  Janssens, Hilde ^a   Gehring, Walter J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BASEL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Crystallin; Drosophila; Eye development; Lens; Ocellus

Indexed keywords

CRYSTALLIN;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; COMPOUND EYE; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; EYE DEVELOPMENT; GENE ISOLATION; GENE SEQUENCE; LENS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY;

ANIMALIA; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; DROSOPHILA SIMULANS; DROSOPHILA VIRILIS; HEXAPODA; INSECTA; MELANOGASTER; MOLLUSCA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 0033105306     PISSN: 00121606     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/dbio.1998.9170     Document Type: Article

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