The scarlet eye colour gene of the tephritid fruit fly: Bactrocera tryoni and the nature of two eye colour mutations

Insect Molecular Biology

Volumn 12, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 263-269

  Zhao, Jing Ting ^a   Bennett, C L ^a   Stewart, G J ^a   Frommer, M ^a   Raphael, K A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Bactrocera; Eye colour mutation; Scarlet gene; Tephritid fruit fly

Indexed keywords

ALLELES; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BLOTTING, SOUTHERN; CLONING, MOLECULAR; EYE COLOR; EYE PROTEINS; GENES, INSECT; INSECT PROTEINS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTATION; PHENOTYPE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; TEPHRITIDAE;

BACTROCERA TRYONI; CITRUS LIMON; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; HEXAPODA; INSECTA; MELANOGASTER;

EID: 0038660770     PISSN: 09621075     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2583.2003.00410.x     Document Type: Article

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