Strukturdifferenzierungen in Y-Chromosom von Drosophila hydei: The unique morphology of the Y chromosomal lampbrush loops Threads results from 'coaxial shells' formed by different satellite-specific subregions within megabase-sized transcripts

Chromosome Research

Volumn 4, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 87-102

  Kurek, Roman ^a   Trapitz, Peter ^a   Bünemann, Hans ^a  

^a HEINRICH HEINE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Coaxial transcript shells; Drosophila hydei cell line KUN DH 33; Pulsed field gel electrophoresis of repetitive DNA; Two colour transcript fluorescence in situ hybridization; Y chromosomal lampbrush loops Threads

Indexed keywords

REPETITIVE DNA; RIBONUCLEOPROTEIN; SATELLITE DNA;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CHROMOSOME NOR; CHROMOSOME STRUCTURE; CHROMOSOME YQ; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA SEQUENCE; DNA TRANSCRIPTION; DROSOPHILA HYDEI; FLUORESCENCE IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; MALE; MORPHOLOGY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS; PULSED FIELD GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; RNA STRUCTURE; Y CHROMOSOME; ANIMAL; CELL NUCLEUS; DROSOPHILA; FERTILITY; GENE DELETION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GENETICS; MUTATION; NUCLEIC ACID HYBRIDIZATION; NUCLEOTIDE REPEAT; PHASE CONTRAST MICROSCOPY; PHYSIOLOGY; SOUTHERN BLOTTING; SPERMATOCYTE; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

ANIMALS; BLOTTING, SOUTHERN; CELL NUCLEUS; DROSOPHILA; ELECTROPHORESIS, GEL, PULSED-FIELD; FERTILITY; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION, FLUORESCENCE; MALE; MICROSCOPY, PHASE-CONTRAST; MUTATION; NUCLEIC ACID HYBRIDIZATION; REPETITIVE SEQUENCES, NUCLEIC ACID; SEQUENCE DELETION; SPERMATOCYTES; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC; Y CHROMOSOME;

EID: 0030088041     PISSN: 09673849     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF02259701     Document Type: Article

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