A dicistronic gene pair within a cluster of "EF-hand" protein genes in the genomes of Drosophila species

Genomics

Volumn 88, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 347-359

  Pavlik, Paige ^a   Konduri, Vanaja ^a   Massa, Enrique ^b   Simonette, Rebecca ^a   Beckingham, Kathleen M ^a  

^a RICE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Calcium binding proteins; Calmodulin; EF hand proteins; Eukaryotic dicistronic transcripts; Functional processed pseudogenes; Testis specific transcription

Indexed keywords

ACAM PROTEIN; ANDROCAM; CALMODULIN; CALMODULIN BINDING PROTEIN; INSECT PROTEIN; PROTEIN DERIVATIVE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

5' UNTRANSLATED REGION; ARTICLE; DROSOPHILA; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; DROSOPHILA PSEUDOOBSCURA; DROSOPHILA YAKUBA; GENE CLUSTER; GENE LOCUS; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GENOME; IMMUNOBLOTTING; INTRON; MASS SPECTROMETRY; NONHUMAN; OPEN READING FRAME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN MOTIF; PSEUDOGENE; TESTIS;

ANIMALS; CALCIUM-BINDING PROTEINS; DROSOPHILA; DROSOPHILA PROTEINS; GENOME, INSECT; MULTIGENE FAMILY; OPEN READING FRAMES; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; DROSOPHILA PSEUDOOBSCURA; DROSOPHILA YAKUBA;

EID: 33747766122     PISSN: 08887543     EISSN: 10898646     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ygeno.2006.04.009     Document Type: Article

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