Expression study of an α-l-fucosidase gene in the Drosophilidae family

Gene

Volumn 420, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 23-33

  Pasini, Maria E ^a   Intra, Jari ^a   Pavesi, Giulio ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MILAN   (Italy)

Author keywords

Fertilization; Fucose; Gamete; In situ hybridization; Phylogeny

Indexed keywords

ALPHA LEVO FUCOSIDASE; GENE PRODUCT; POLYPEPTIDE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL MEMBRANE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DROSOPHILA; EGG SHELL; FEMALE; FERTILIZATION; GAMETE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC CODE; GERM LINE; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE; MALE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPEN READING FRAME; PHYLOGENY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEMINAL PLASMA; SPERMATOZOON;

ALPHA-L-FUCOSIDASE; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; DROSOPHILA PROTEINS; DROSOPHILIDAE; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENES, INSECT; GERM CELLS; MALE; PHYLOGENY; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; DROSOPHILIDAE; SCAPTODROSOPHILA; SCAPTODROSOPHILA LEBANONENSIS; SOPHOPHORA;

EID: 46149117457     PISSN: 03781119     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.gene.2008.04.021     Document Type: Article

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