An FB-NOF mediated duplication of the white gene is responsible for the zeste phenotype in some Drosophila melanogaster unstable strains

Molecular Genetics and Genomics

Volumn 275, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 35-43

  Badal, Martí ^a   Portela, Anna ^a   Baldrich, Eva ^a   Marcos, Ricard ^a   Cabré, Oriol ^a   Xamena, Noel ^a  

^a UNIVERSITAT AUTÒNOMA DE BARCELONA   (Spain)

Author keywords

FB NOF; Transposable element Foldback; White; Zeste

Indexed keywords

DROSOPHILA PROTEIN; PROTEIN WHITE; PROTEIN ZESTE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; FEMALE; FLUORESCENCE IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; GENE DUPLICATION; GENE INSERTION; GENE INTERACTION; GENE LOCATION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; GENETIC STRAIN; GENOTOXICITY; INSECT GENETICS; INTRON; MALE; MUTANT; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHENOTYPE; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVERTANT; TANDEM REPEAT;

ANIMALS; ATP-BINDING CASSETTE TRANSPORTERS; DNA TRANSPOSABLE ELEMENTS; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; DROSOPHILA PROTEINS; EYE PROTEINS; GENE DUPLICATION; MALE; MUTAGENESIS, INSERTIONAL;

DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; INSECTA;

EID: 30044445852     PISSN: 16174615     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00438-005-0068-6     Document Type: Article

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