Developmental timing and tissue specificity of heterochromatin-mediated silencing

EMBO Journal

Volumn 15, Issue 6, 1996, Pages 1323-1332

  Lu, Brett Y ^b   Bishop, Clifton P ^a   Eissenberg, Joel C ^b  

^a WEST VIRGINIA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b S LOUIS UNIV HLTH SCIENCES CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Development; Epigenetic silencing; Germline; Heterochromatin; Position effect

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; DEVELOPMENTAL GENETICS; DIFFERENTIATION; DROSOPHILA; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; EYE DEVELOPMENT; HETEROCHROMATIN; MALE; MOSAICISM; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; POSITION EFFECT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPORTER GENE; SILENCER GENE; SILENT GENE; TISSUE SPECIFICITY;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 0029914816     PISSN: 02614189     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/j.1460-2075.1996.tb00474.x     Document Type: Article

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