Transvection at the end of the truncated chromosome in Drosophila melanogaster

Genetics

Volumn 163, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 1375-1387

  Savitsky, Mikhail ^a   Kahn, Tatyana ^b   Pomerantseva, Ekaterina ^a   Georgiev, Pavel ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF GENE BIOLOGY   (Russian Federation)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GENEVA   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHROMOSOME ANALYSIS; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; GENE LOCUS; INSECT GENETICS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; TRANSACTIVATION;

ANIMALS; CHROMOSOME DELETION; CHROMOSOMES; CROSSES, GENETIC; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; DROSOPHILA PROTEINS; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); TRANS-ACTIVATION (GENETICS);

ARACHNIDA; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; HEXAPODA; INSECTA; MELANOGASTER;

EID: 0242600797     PISSN: 00166731     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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