Evolutionary and functional analysis of the tailless enhancer in Musca domestica and Drosophila melanogaster

Evolution and Development

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 6-15

  Wratten, Naomi S ^a,d   McGregor, Alistair P ^b   Shaw, Philip J ^c   Dover, Gabriel A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEICESTER   (United Kingdom)

^b PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c NATIONAL SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY DEVELOPMENT AGENCY   (Thailand)

^d RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BICOID PROTEIN, DROSOPHILA; DNA BINDING PROTEIN; DROSOPHILA PROTEIN; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEIN; INSECT PROTEIN; MESSENGER RNA; REPRESSOR PROTEIN; TAILLESS PROTEIN, DROSOPHILA; TRANSACTIVATOR PROTEIN;

EVOLUTION;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DNA SEQUENCE; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; ENHANCER REGION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; HOUSE FLY; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MOLECULAR GENETICS; PRENATAL DEVELOPMENT; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; DROSOPHILA PROTEINS; ENHANCER ELEMENTS (GENETICS); EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEINS; HOUSEFLIES; INSECT PROTEINS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; REPRESSOR PROTEINS; RNA, MESSENGER; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; TRANS-ACTIVATORS;

DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; MUSCA DOMESTICA;

EID: 33645028299     PISSN: 1520541X     EISSN: 1525142X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1525-142X.2006.05070.x     Document Type: Article

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