Patterns of variation in the intergenic spacers of ribosomal DNA in Drosophila melanogaster support a model for genetic exchanges during X-Y pairing

Genetics

Volumn 155, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 1221-1229

  Polanco, Carlos ^a   González, Ana I ^a   Dover, Gabriel A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEÓN   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEICESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RIBOSOME DNA; SINGLE STRANDED DNA; SPACER DNA;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CHROMATID EXCHANGE; CHROMOSOME MUTATION; CHROMOSOME PAIRING; CONTROLLED STUDY; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; FEMALE; GENE LOCUS; GENE STRUCTURE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MULTIGENE FAMILY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE REPEAT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; X CHROMOSOME; Y CHROMOSOME;

ANIMALS; CHROMOSOME SEGREGATION; DNA, RIBOSOMAL; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; FEMALE; MALE; MODELS, GENETIC; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); RESTRICTION MAPPING; SISTER CHROMATID EXCHANGE; VARIATION (GENETICS); X CHROMOSOME; Y CHROMOSOME;

ANIMALIA; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; MELANOGASTER;

EID: 17344376854     PISSN: 00166731     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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