Identification of a transcriptional regulatory region for germline-specific expression of vasa gene in Drosophila melanogaster

Mechanisms of Development

Volumn 112, Issue 1-2, 2002, Pages 129-139

  Sano, Hiroko ^a   Nakamura, Akira ^a   Kobayashi, Satoru ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TSUKUBA   (Japan)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF NATURAL SCIENCES   (Japan)

Author keywords

Drosophila; Gene regulation; Germline; Vasa (vas)

Indexed keywords

GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN; HYBRID PROTEIN; PROTEIN VAS; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; GENE CONSTRUCT; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE LOCUS; GENE TRANSFER; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GERM LINE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TATA BOX; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

5' UNTRANSLATED REGIONS; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; BETA-GALACTOSIDASE; DEAD-BOX RNA HELICASES; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; DROSOPHILA PROTEINS; FEMALE; GENE DELETION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEINS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LUMINESCENT PROTEINS; MICROSCOPY, FLUORESCENCE; MODELS, GENETIC; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; OVARY; RECOMBINANT FUSION PROTEINS; RNA HELICASES; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; MELANOGASTER;

EID: 0036175902     PISSN: 09254773     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0925-4773(01)00654-2     Document Type: Article

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