Gene Expression Divergence and Evolutionary Analysis of the Drosomycin Gene Family in Drosophila melanogaster

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 drosom...

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Main Authors: Xiao-Juan Deng, Wan-Ying Yang, Ya-Dong Huang, Yang Cao, Shuo-Yang Wen, Qing-You Xia, Peilin Xu
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Hindawi Limited 2009-01-01
Series:Journal of Biomedicine and Biotechnology
Online Access:http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2009/315423