Molecular characterization of the signed wings locus of Drosophila melanogaster

BMC Genetics

Volumn 5, Issue , 2004, Pages

  Schwartz, Yuri B ^a,b,c   Boykova, Tatiana ^a,b   Belyaeva, Elena S ^a   Ashburner, Michael ^b   Zhimulev, Igor F ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF CYTOLOGY AND GENETICS   (Russian Federation)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GENEVA   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ECDYSTERONE; HISTIDINE; LEUCINE; NUCLEAR PROTEIN; PROTEIN SWI; THREONINE; TOLL LIKE RECEPTOR 4; DROSOPHILA PROTEIN; SWI PROTEIN, D MELANOGASTER;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DROSOPHILA; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; DROSOPHILA PSEUDOOBSCURA; GENE DISRUPTION; GENE LOCUS; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC CONSERVATION; GENETIC REGULATION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PREDICTION; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN MOTIF; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; ANIMAL; CHEMISTRY; CONTIG MAPPING; FEMALE; GENETIC MARKER; GENETICS; MALE; METHODOLOGY; MOLECULAR CLONING; MOLECULAR GENETICS; X CHROMOSOME;

ANIMALIA; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; DROSOPHILA PSEUDOOBSCURA;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CLONING, MOLECULAR; CONTIG MAPPING; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; DROSOPHILA PROTEINS; FEMALE; GENETIC MARKERS; MALE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; X CHROMOSOME;

EID: 25444486997     PISSN: 14712156     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2156-5-15     Document Type: Article

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