A 1.5 kb direct repeat sequence flanks the suppressor of forked gene at the euchromatin-heterochromatin boundary of the Drosophila melanogaster X chromosome

Genetical Research

Volumn 68, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 191-202

  Tudor, Mark ^a,b   Mitchelson, Andrew ^a   O'Hare, Kevin ^a  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

REPETITIVE DNA;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA BASE; DNA FLANKING REGION; DNA SEQUENCE; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; GENE DELETION; HETEROCHROMATIN; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; METAPHASE CHROMOSOME; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; POLYTENE CHROMOSOME; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SOUTHERN BLOTTING; X CHROMOSOME;

ANIMALIA; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; MELANOGASTER;

EID: 0030512683     PISSN: 00166723     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/s0016672300034169     Document Type: Article

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