Competition between different variegating rearrangements for limited heterochromatic factors in Drosophila melanogaster

Genetics

Volumn 145, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 945-959

  Lloyd, Vett K ^a   Sinclair, Donald A ^a   Grigliatti, Thomas A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CELL CONTACT; CHROMOSOME REARRANGEMENT; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; GENE ACTIVATION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE MUTATION; GENE REARRANGEMENT; GENOME; HETEROCHROMATIN; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; POLYTENE CHROMOSOME; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ANIMALS; CHROMOSOMES; CROSSES, GENETIC; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE REARRANGEMENT; HETEROCHROMATIN; MALE; MODELS, GENETIC;

ANIMALIA; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; MELANOGASTER;

EID: 0030931307     PISSN: 00166731     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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