Undermethylation associated with retroelement activation and chromosome remodelling in an interspecific mammalian hybrid

Nature

Volumn 393, Issue 6680, 1998, Pages 68-72

  Waugh O'Neill, Rachel J ^a,b   O'Neill, Michael J ^b   Marshall Graves, Jennifer A ^a  

^a LA TROBE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; AUTOSOME; CHROMOSOME ANALYSIS; DNA METHYLATION; GENE REARRANGEMENT; HYBRIDIZATION; KARYOTYPE; MAMMAL CELL; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ANIMALS; BLOTTING, SOUTHERN; CHROMOSOME ABERRATIONS; DNA METHYLATION; EVOLUTION; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYBRIDIZATION, GENETIC; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION, FLUORESCENCE; MALE; MARSUPIALIA; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; RETROELEMENTS;

HELIANTHUS; MACROPUS EUGENII; MAMMALIA; WALLABIA BICOLOR;

EID: 0009673698     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/29985     Document Type: Article

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