Transgenic Drosophila simulans strains prove the identity of the speciation gene Lethal hybrid rescue

Genes and Genetic Systems

Volumn 84, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 353-360

  Prigent, Stéphane R ^a,b   Matsubayashi, Hiroshi ^a   Yamamoto, Masa Toshi ^a  

^a KYOTO INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^b BIODIVERSITY RESEARCH CENTER   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Drosophila melanogaster; Hybrid incompatibility; Hybrid male lethality; SNP mapping; Transgenic experiment

Indexed keywords

TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR GAL4;

ARTICLE; CHROMOSOME CONDENSATION; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; DROSOPHILA SIMULANS; GENE; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENE MAPPING; GENE MUTATION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC INCOMPATIBILITY; HYBRID; LETHAL HYBRID RESCUE GENE; MITOSIS; NONHUMAN; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; SPECIES DIFFERENTIATION; TRANSGENIC ANIMAL;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; CHIMERA; CHROMOSOME MAPPING; DNA PRIMERS; DROSOPHILA; DROSOPHILA PROTEINS; FEMALE; GENES, LETHAL; MALE; MUTATION; PHENOTYPE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; PROMOTER REGIONS, GENETIC; REPRODUCTION; RETROELEMENTS; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; TRANSFORMATION, GENETIC; TRANSGENES;

DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; DROSOPHILA SIMULANS;

EID: 76749135785     PISSN: 13417568     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1266/ggs.84.353     Document Type: Article

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