Rapid restructuring of bicoid-dependent hunchback promoters within and between Dipteran species: Implications for molecular coevolution

Evolution and Development

Volumn 3, Issue 6, 2001, Pages 397-407

  McGregor, Alistair P ^a   Shaw, Philip J ^a   Hancock, John M ^b   Bopp, Daniel ^c   Hediger, Monika ^c   Wratten, Naomi S ^a   Dover, Gabriel A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEICESTER   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COEVOLUTION; GENE;

CALLIPHORA VICINA; DIPTERA; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; INSECTA; LUCILIA SERICATA; MELANOGASTER; MUSCA DOMESTICA; SERICATA;

BICOID PROTEIN, DROSOPHILA; DNA BINDING PROTEIN; DROSOPHILA PROTEIN; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEIN; HUNCHBACK PROTEIN, DROSOPHILA; TRANSACTIVATOR PROTEIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; FLY; GENETIC POLYMORPHISM; GENETICS; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; PHYSIOLOGY; POINT MUTATION; PROMOTER REGION;

ANIMALS; DIPTERA; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; DROSOPHILA PROTEINS; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEINS; POINT MUTATION; POLYMORPHISM, GENETIC; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); TRANS-ACTIVATORS; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

EID: 0035544649     PISSN: 1520541X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1525-142X.2001.01043.x     Document Type: Article

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