Melanotic mutants in Drosophila: Pathways and phenotypes

Genetics

Volumn 174, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 253-263

  Minakhina, Svetlana ^a   Steward, Ruth ^a  

^a RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; BLOOD CELL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DORSAL GENE; DROSOPHILA; GENE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE MUTATION; MELANOSIS; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPIC VARIATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; DROSOPHILA; DROSOPHILA PROTEINS; HEMOCYTES; MELANINS; MUTATION; NUCLEAR PROTEINS; PHENOTYPE; PHOSPHOPROTEINS; PIGMENTATION; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; TRANSFECTION;

CACTACEAE;

EID: 33748912954     PISSN: 00166731     EISSN: 00166731     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1534/genetics.106.061978     Document Type: Article

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