Heterochromatic genes in Drosophila: A comparative analysis of two genes

Genetics

Volumn 173, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 1433-1445

  Schulze, Sandra R ^a,d   McAllister, Bryant F ^b   Sinclair, Donald A R ^a   Fitzpatrick, Kathleen A ^a   Marchetti, Marcella ^c   Pimpinelli, Sergio ^c   Honda, Barry M ^a  

^a SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

^c SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

^d WESTERN WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INSECT PROTEIN; PROTEIN DBP80; PROTEIN RPL15; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; BIOINFORMATICS; CENTROMERE; CHROMOSOME; CHROMOSOME POSITIONING; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; DROSOPHILA VIRILIS; EVOLUTION; GENE LOCATION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENE STRUCTURE; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENOME ANALYSIS; HETEROCHROMATIN; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; INTRON; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; ORTHOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; CHROMOSOME MAPPING; CLONING, MOLECULAR; CONSERVED SEQUENCE; DROSOPHILA; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; DROSOPHILA PROTEINS; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; HETEROCHROMATIN; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; RIBOSOMAL PROTEINS; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; DROSOPHILA PSEUDOOBSCURA; DROSOPHILA VIRILIS;

EID: 33746450076     PISSN: 00166731     EISSN: 00166731     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1534/genetics.106.056069     Document Type: Article

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