The functions of the multiproduct and rapidly evolving dec-1 eggshell gene are conserved between evolutionarily distant species of Drosophila

Genetics

Volumn 159, Issue 3, 2001, Pages 1089-1102

  Badciong, James C ^a,b   Otto, Jeffery M ^a,c   Waring, Gail L ^a  

^a MARQUETTE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b MEDICAL COLLEGE OF WISCONSIN   (United States)

^c Clinical Data Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GENE PRODUCT; PROTEIN DEC 1; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AMINO ACID ANALYSIS; ARTICLE; EGG SHELL; EVOLUTION; GENETIC CONSERVATION; MOLECULAR CLONING; MORPHOGENESIS; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SPECIES DIFFERENTIATION;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; ANIMALS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; BASE SEQUENCE; CLONING, MOLECULAR; CONSERVED SEQUENCE; DROSOPHILA; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; DROSOPHILA PROTEINS; EGG PROTEINS; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENE LIBRARY; INSECT PROTEINS; MODELS, GENETIC; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTATION; OPEN READING FRAMES; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; TIME FACTORS; TRANSGENES;

DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; DROSOPHILA VIRILIS; DROSOPHILA YAKUBA; MELANOGASTER;

EID: 0035676157     PISSN: 00166731     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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