A compact gene cluster in Drosophila: The unrelated Cs gene is compressed between duplicated amd and Ddc

Gene

Volumn 231, Issue 1-2, 1999, Pages 111-120

  Tatarenkov, Andrey ^a   Sáez, Alberto G ^a   Ayala, Francisco J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

D. melanogaster; Decarboxylases; Gene cluster; Gene duplication

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID; CARBOXYLYASE; POLYAMINE OXIDASE; TRANSCORTIN;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; DROSOPHILA; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; GENE CLUSTER; GENE DUPLICATION; GENE FUNCTION; GENE MUTATION; GENE ORDER; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; DNA PRIMERS; DROSOPHILA; FEMALE; GENE DUPLICATION; INSECT PROTEINS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MULTIGENE FAMILY; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID;

ANIMALIA; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; DROSOPHILA SIMULANS; MELANOGASTER; SCAPTODROSOPHILA; SCAPTODROSOPHILA LEBANONENSIS; ZEA MAYS;

EID: 0345188769     PISSN: 03781119     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-1119(99)00096-7     Document Type: Article

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