UDP-galactose 4′ epimerase (GALE) is essential for development of Drosophila melanogaster

DMM Disease Models and Mechanisms

Volumn 3, Issue 9-10, 2010, Pages 628-638

  Sanders, Rebecca D ^a   Sefton, Jennifer M I ^a   Moberg, Kenneth H ^b   Fridovich Keil, Judith L ^b  

^a EMORY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b EMORY UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

URIDINE DIPHOSPHATE GLUCOSE 4 EPIMERASE;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; GENE EXPRESSION; LARVA; MALPIGHIAN TUBULE; NONHUMAN; PRIMORDIUM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SURVIVAL; TRANSGENE;

ALLELES; ANIMALS; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; EMBRYO, NONMAMMALIAN; GALACTOSE; GALACTOSEPHOSPHATES; GASTROINTESTINAL TRACT; HUMANS; MALPIGHIAN TUBULES; METABOLIC NETWORKS AND PATHWAYS; MUTATION; UDPGLUCOSE 4-EPIMERASE;

ANIMALIA; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER;

EID: 77956531695     PISSN: 17548403     EISSN: 17548411     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1242/dmm.005058     Document Type: Article

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