Molecular analysis of Drosophila eyes absent mutants reveals features of the conserved Eya Domain

Genetics

Volumn 155, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 709-720

  Bui, Quang T ^a   Zimmerman, John E ^a,b   Liu, Haixi ^a   Bonini, Nancy M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b HOSPITAL OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALLELE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DROSOPHILA; GENE ACTIVITY; GENE MUTATION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC CONSERVATION; MISSENSE MUTATION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN INTERACTION;

ALLELES; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; DNA PRIMERS; DROSOPHILA; DROSOPHILA PROTEINS; EYE PROTEINS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTATION, MISSENSE; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID;

EID: 0034051280     PISSN: 00166731     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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