Comparative sequence analysis of a gene-dense region among closely related species of Drosophila melanogaster

Genes and Genetic Systems

Volumn 79, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 351-359

  Kawahara, Yoshihiro ^a   Matsuo, Takashi ^a   Nozawa, Masafumi ^a   Shin I, Tadasu ^b   Kohara, Yuji ^b   Aigaki, Toshiro ^a  

^a TOKYO METROPOLITAN UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF GENETICS   (Japan)

Author keywords

Deletion bias; Drosophila melanogaster; Drosophila sechellia; Drosophila simulans; Evolution of non coding region

Indexed keywords

MESSENGER RNA;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOGENETICS; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; DROSOPHILA SIMULANS; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE INSERTION; GENE MAPPING; GENE MUTATION; INSECT GENETICS; INTRON; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; RNA PROCESSING; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; TRANSPOSON;

ANIMALS; CHROMOSOME MAPPING; CLASSIFICATION; DNA TRANSPOSABLE ELEMENTS; DROSOPHILA; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; FRAMESHIFT MUTATION; INTRONS; PSEUDOGENES; RNA, UNTRANSLATED; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; DROSOPHILA SECHELLIA; DROSOPHILA SIMULANS; INSECTA; MELANOGASTER;

EID: 15744367960     PISSN: 13417568     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1266/ggs.79.351     Document Type: Article

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