The Drosophila melanogaster importin α3 Locus Encodes an Essential Gene Required for the Development of Both Larval and Adult Tissues

Genetics

Volumn 165, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 1943-1958

  Mason, D Adam ^a   Máthé, Endre ^b   Fleming, Robert J ^c   Goldfarb, David S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^c TRINITY COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

KARYOPHERIN ALPHA; KARYOPHERIN ALPHA1; KARYOPHERIN ALPHA2; KARYOPHERIN ALPHA3; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL MATURATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; EMBRYO; EYE MALFORMATION; FEMALE; GENE LOCUS; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE; LARVA; MALE; MUTANT; NONHUMAN; NONSENSE MUTATION; NORTHERN BLOTTING; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; TRANSGENE; WESTERN BLOTTING;

ALLELES; ALPHA KARYOPHERINS; ANIMALS; ANIMALS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; CODON, NONSENSE; CROSSES, GENETIC; DNA TRANSPOSABLE ELEMENTS; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; DROSOPHILA PROTEINS; EMBRYO, NONMAMMALIAN; EYE; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; LARVA; MALE; RECOMBINATION, GENETIC; SEQUENCE DELETION; TRANSGENES;

ANIMALIA; ARACHNIDA; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; FUNGI; HEXAPODA; MAMMALIA; MELANOGASTER; METAZOA;

EID: 0346100699     PISSN: 00166731     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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