Is the difference in α-amylase activity in the strains of Drosophila melanogaster with different allozymes due to transcriptional or posttranscriptional control?

Biochemical Genetics

Volumn 37, Issue 11-12, 1999, Pages 345-356

  Yamate, Nobuko ^a   Yamazaki, Tsuneyuki ^a  

^a KYUSHU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Drosophila melanogaster; Transcription control; amylase

Indexed keywords

ALLOENZYME; AMYLASE; MESSENGER RNA;

ARTICLE; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME POLYMORPHISM; ENZYME STABILITY; FOOD COMPOSITION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; LARVAL DEVELOPMENT; NONHUMAN; STRAIN DIFFERENCE;

DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; MELANOGASTER;

EID: 0033399854     PISSN: 00062928     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/a:1018715528413     Document Type: Article

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