Dosage compensation in Drosophila

Annual Review of Genetics

Volumn 28, Issue , 1994, Pages 491-521

  Baker, Bruce S ^a   Gorman, Monica ^a   Marín, Ignacio ^a,b  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

histone acetylation; male specific lethal genes; sexual differentiation; transcriptional regulation; X chromosome

Indexed keywords

HISTONE H4; PROTEIN;

ACETYLATION; ANEUPLOIDY; DROSOPHILA; EVOLUTION; GENE DOSAGE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETIC MODEL; GENETIC REGULATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SEX CHROMOSOME; SEX DIFFERENTIATION;

EID: 0028566470     PISSN: 00664197     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev.ge.28.120194.002423     Document Type: Review

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