Experimentally increased codon bias in the Drosophila Adh gene leads to an increase in larval, but not adult, alcohol dehydrogenase activity

Genetics

Volumn 184, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 547-555

  Hense, Winfried ^a   Anderson, Nathan ^b   Hutter, Stephan ^a   Stephan, Wolfgang ^a   Parsch, John ^a   Carlini, David B ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^b AMERICAN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALCOHOL DEHYDROGENASE; LEUCINE; TRANSFER RNA;

ADH GENE; ALLELE; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CODON BIAS; CODON USAGE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; ENZYME ACTIVITY; GENE; LARVA; MALE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

AGING; ALCOHOL DEHYDROGENASE; ALLELES; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CODON; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; DROSOPHILA PROTEINS; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, ENZYMOLOGIC; LARVA; LEUCINE; MALE; MUTAGENESIS, SITE-DIRECTED; MUTATION; PROTEIN BIOSYNTHESIS; TRANSFORMATION, GENETIC; TRANSGENES;

DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER;

EID: 77749268307     PISSN: 00166731     EISSN: 00166731     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1534/genetics.109.111294     Document Type: Article

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