Evolution of the trans-splicing Drosophila locus mod(mdg4) in several species of Diptera and Lepidoptera

Gene

Volumn 331, Issue 1-2, 2004, Pages 165-176

  Krauss, Veiko ^a   Dorn, Rainer ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEIPZIG   (Germany)

^b MARTIN LUTHER UNIVERSITY HALLE WITTENBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Aga; Alternative splicing; Anopheles gambiae; Bmo; Bombyx mori; BTB domain; Caenorhabditis elegans; cDNA; Cel; Complementary DNA; Composite gene; Dme; Dps; Drosophila melanogaster; Drosophila pseudoobscura; Dvi; FLYWCH domain; Modifier of mdg4; Molecular evolution

Indexed keywords

MESSENGER RNA;

AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; COMPLEX FORMATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DROSOPHILA; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; DROSOPHILA PSEUDOOBSCURA; DROSOPHILA VIRILIS; EXON; FLY; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENE LOCUS; GENE STRUCTURE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; LEPIDOPTERA; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN MOTIF; RNA SPLICING; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; TRANS ISOMER;

ALTERNATIVE SPLICING; AMINO ACID MOTIFS; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; ANOPHELES; BINDING SITES; BOMBYX; CONSERVED SEQUENCE; DIPTERA; DNA, COMPLEMENTARY; DROSOPHILA; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; DROSOPHILA PROTEINS; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; LEPIDOPTERA; MODELS, GENETIC; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PROTEIN ISOFORMS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

ANOPHELES GAMBIAE; BOMBYX; BOMBYX MORI; CAENORHABDITIS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; DIPTERA; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; DROSOPHILA PSEUDOOBSCURA; DROSOPHILA VIRILIS; LEPIDOPTERA; MELANOGASTER;

EID: 15544369280     PISSN: 03781119     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.gene.2004.02.019     Document Type: Article

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