Quality of regulatory elements in Drosophila retrogenes

Genomics

Volumn 93, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 83-89

  Bai, Yongsheng ^a,b   Casola, Claudio ^a,c   Betrán, Esther ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT ARLINGTON   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^c INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Drosophila; Regulatory motifs; Retrogene; Testis expression

Indexed keywords

TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

ARTICLE; DNA REPLICATION; DROSOPHILA; GENE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENOME; NONHUMAN; PHYLOGENY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; REGULATORY SEQUENCE; RETROGENE; TESTIS;

AMINO ACID MOTIFS; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CONSERVED SEQUENCE; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; ENHANCER ELEMENTS, GENETIC; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENES, INSECT; MALE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PROMOTER REGIONS, GENETIC; RETROELEMENTS; TESTIS;

EID: 57049116526     PISSN: 08887543     EISSN: 10898646     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ygeno.2008.09.006     Document Type: Article

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