Chromatin: A sticky silence

Current Biology

Volumn 6, Issue 10, 1996, Pages 1222-1225

  Marcand, Stéphane ^a   Gasser, Susan M ^b   Gilson, Eric ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE LYON   (France)

^b SWISS INST FOR EXP CANCER RESEARCH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMALIA; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE;

EID: 0030266602     PISSN: 09609822     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0960-9822(96)00701-4     Document Type: Article

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