Turnover and lineage-specific broadening of the transcription start site in a testis-specific retrogene

Fly

Volumn 4, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 3-11

  Sorourian, Mehran ^a   Betrán, Esther ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT ARLINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

Drosophila; Pros28.1A; Pros 4T1; Proteasome; Regulatory sequence; Retrogene; Testis expression

Indexed keywords

DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; DROSOPHILA SIMULANS; DROSOPHILA YAKUBA; MELANOGASTER SUBGROUP;

EID: 77952625614     PISSN: 19336934     EISSN: 19336942     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4161/fly.4.1.11136     Document Type: Article

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