Two genes become one: The genes encoding heterochromatin protein SU(VAR)3-9 and translation initiation factor subunit eIF-2γ are joined to a dicistronic unit in holometabolic insects

Genetics

Volumn 156, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 1157-1167

  Krauss, V ^a   Reuter, G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEIPZIG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INITIATION FACTOR 2; INSECT PROTEIN; MESSENGER RNA; RNA;

ALTERNATIVE RNA SPLICING; AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; COLEOPTERA; DROSOPHILA; EXON; GENE FUSION; HETEROCHROMATIN; LEPIDOPTERA; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RNA TRANSLATION; STOP CODON; TRANSLATION INITIATION;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; ARTHROPODS; BASE SEQUENCE; DNA PRIMERS; DROSOPHILA; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; DROSOPHILA PROTEINS; EUKARYOTIC INITIATION FACTOR-2; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; EXONS; GENES, INSECT; HETEROCHROMATIN; INSECTS; LEPIDOPTERA; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; PROTEIN SUBUNITS; REPRESSOR PROTEINS; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

ARACHNIDA; ARTHROPODA; CHILOPODA; CLYTUS ARIETIS; COLEOPTERA; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; HEXAPODA; INSECTA; LEPIDOPTERA; LEPTINOTARSA DECEMLINEATA; LITHOBIUS FORFICATUS; MAMMALIA; MELANOGASTER; SCOLIOPTERYX LIBATRIX;

EID: 0033767381     PISSN: 00166731     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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