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Gene expression divergence and evolutionary analysis of the drosomycin gene family in Drosophila melanogaster.
Journal of biomedicine & biotechnology - 1 Jan 2009
Deng Xiao-Juan, Yang Wan-Ying, Huang Ya-Dong, Cao Yang, Wen Shuo-Yang, Xia Qing-You, Xu Peilin
Abstract excerpt
Drosomycin (Drs) encoding an inducible 44-residue antifungal peptide is clustered with six additional genes, Dro1, Dro2, Dro3, Dro4, Dro5, and Dro6, forming a multigene family on the 3L chromosome arm in Drosophila melanogaster. To get further insight into the regulation of each member of the drosomycin gene family, here we investigated gene expression patterns of this family by either microbe-free injury or...
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