Divergent structure and function of the bicoid gene in Muscoidea fly species

Evolution and Development

Volumn 3, Issue 4, 2001, Pages 251-262

  Shaw, Philip J ^a   Salameh, Ahmad ^a,b   McGregor, Alistair P ^a   Bala, Sendu ^a   Dover, Gabriel A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEICESTER   (United Kingdom)

^b Dipartimento di Biologia Moleculare   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CODING REGION; DNA FLANKING REGION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENE STRUCTURE; GENETIC CONSERVATION; GENETIC DIVERGENCE; GENETIC DIVERSITY; GENETIC POLYMORPHISM; INSECT GENETICS; MOLECULAR CLONING; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MORPHOGENESIS; PHENOTYPE; PROTEIN TERTIARY STRUCTURE; UNTRANSLATED REGION;

GENETIC STRUCTURE;

3' UNTRANSLATED REGIONS; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CLONING, MOLECULAR; DIPTERA; DNA, COMPLEMENTARY; GENE LIBRARY; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEINS; MICROSCOPY, PHASE-CONTRAST; MODELS, GENETIC; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; PHENOTYPE; PHYLOGENY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; POLYMORPHISM, GENETIC; POLYMORPHISM, RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA; SOFTWARE; TRANS-ACTIVATORS;

CALLIPHORA VICINA; HEXAPODA; INSECTA; LUCILIA SERICATA; MUSCA DOMESTICA; MUSCOIDEA; SERICATA;

EID: 0034921838     PISSN: 1520541X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1525-142X.2001.003004251.x     Document Type: Article

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