A Family of Genes Clustered at the Triplo-lethal Locus of Drosophila melanogaster Has an Unusual Evolutionary History and Significant Synteny with Anopheles gambiae

Genetics

Volumn 165, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 613-621

  Dorer, Douglas R ^a   Rudnick, Jamie A ^b,d   Moriyama, Etsuko N ^b,c   Christensen, Alan C ^b  

^a MEHARRY MEDICAL COLLEGE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA LINCOLN   (United States)

^d PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANOPHELES GAMBIAE; ARTICLE; CODON; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; GENE CLUSTER; GENE LOCUS; GENETIC ENGINEERING; GENETIC VARIABILITY; MULTIGENE FAMILY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FAMILY;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; ANOPHELES; BEES; CHROMOSOME MAPPING; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MULTIGENE FAMILY; PHYLOGENY; SYNTENY;

AEDES AEGYPTI; ANOPHELES GAMBIAE; ARACHNIDA; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; DROSOPHILA PSEUDOOBSCURA; HEXAPODA; INSECTA; MELANOGASTER; MYA;

EID: 0242349705     PISSN: 00166731     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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