The clock gene period in the medfly Ceratitis capitata

Genetical Research

Volumn 86, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 13-30

  Mazzotta, Gabriella M ^a   Sandrelli, Federica ^a   Zordan, Mauro A ^a   Mason, Moyra ^a   Benna, Clara ^a   Cisotto, Paola ^a   Rosato, Ezio ^b   Kyriacou, Charalambos P ^b   Costa, Rodolfo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEICESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MESSENGER RNA; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR CLOCK;

3' UNTRANSLATED REGION; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; DROSOPHILA; GENE ISOLATION; GENETIC CONSERVATION; INSECT GENETICS; LIGHT DARK CYCLE; MEDITERRANEAN FRUIT FLY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PERIOD GENE; PEST INSECT; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN DOMAIN; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; TRANSGENE;

3' UNTRANSLATED REGIONS; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; BLOTTING, NORTHERN; BLOTTING, WESTERN; CERATITIS CAPITATA; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; CLIMATE; CLONING, MOLECULAR; DNA, COMPLEMENTARY; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; EXONS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENES, INSECT; HOMOZYGOTE; INTRONS; MALE; MODELS, GENETIC; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NUCLEAR PROTEINS; PERIODICITY; PHYLOGENY; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; RNA; RNA, MESSENGER; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SOFTWARE; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; TEMPERATURE; TIME FACTORS; TRANSGENES;

CERATITIS; CERATITIS CAPITATA; DIPTERA; INSECTA;

EID: 26444465090     PISSN: 00166723     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0016672305007664     Document Type: Article

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