Genomic organisation and characterisation of the neural sex-determination gene fruitless (fru) in the Hawaiian species Drosophila heteroneura

Gene

Volumn 246, Issue 1-2, 2000, Pages 143-149

  Davis, Terence ^a   Kurihara, Joyce ^a   Yamamoto, Daisuke ^b,c  

^a Center for Conservation Research and Training   (United States)

^b WASEDA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c JAPAN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AGENCY   (Japan)

Author keywords

bp, base pairs; BTB protein protein binding domain; DNA cloning; kb, 1000 base pairs; Muscle of Lawrence; Sexual behaviour; Transcription factor; Zinc finger domain

Indexed keywords

PROTEIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; ZINC FINGER PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; BASE PAIRING; CONTROLLED STUDY; DROSOPHILA; DROSOPHILA HETERONEURA; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; EXON; FEMALE; GENE LIBRARY; GENETIC CODE; GENETIC ORGANIZATION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GENOME; MALE; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; NORTHERN BLOTTING; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN DOMAIN; SEX DETERMINATION; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; UNITED STATES;

ALTERNATIVE SPLICING; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BLOTTING, NORTHERN; DNA; DNA, COMPLEMENTARY; DROSOPHILA; DROSOPHILA PROTEINS; EXONS; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENES, INSECT; INTRONS; MALE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NERVE TISSUE PROTEINS; PROTEIN ISOFORMS; RNA; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

DROSOPHILA HETERONEURA; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; HAWAIIA; HETERONEURA; MELANOGASTER;

EID: 0034603694     PISSN: 03781119     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-1119(00)00064-0     Document Type: Article

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