Organization of the ferritin genes in Drosophila melanogaster

DNA and Cell Biology

Volumn 18, Issue 12, 1999, Pages 937-944

  Dunkov, Boris C ^a   Georgieva, Teodora ^a  

^a University of Arizona   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FERRITIN;

ARTICLE; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; EXON; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC ORGANIZATION; INTRON; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS; SPECIES DIFFERENCE;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; EXONS; FERRITINS; INTRONS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYSICAL CHROMOSOME MAPPING; REGULATORY SEQUENCES, NUCLEIC ACID; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; VARIATION (GENETICS);

CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; INVERTEBRATA; MELANOGASTER; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 0033391431     PISSN: 10445498     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/104454999314791     Document Type: Article

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