Cosuppression in Drosophila: Gene silencing of Alcohol dehydrogenase by white-Adh transgenes is Polycomb dependent

Cell

Volumn 90, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 479-490

  Pal Bhadra, Manika ^a   Bhadra, Utpal ^a   Birchler, James A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; GENE DOSAGE; GENE DUPLICATION; GENE MUTATION; GENE REPRESSION; GENETIC REGULATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; REPORTER GENE; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SILENCER GENE; TRANSGENE;

ANIMALIA; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; MELANOGASTER;

EID: 0030835456     PISSN: 00928674     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0092-8674(00)80508-5     Document Type: Article

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