In situ dissection of the Fab-7 region of the bithorax complex into a chromatin domain boundary and a Polycomb-response element

Development

Volumn 124, Issue 9, 1997, Pages 1809-1820

  Mihaly, Jozsef ^a   Hogga, Ilham ^a   Gausz, Janos ^b   Gyurkovics, Henrik ^b   Karch, François ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GENEVA   (Switzerland)

^b INSTITUTE OF EXPERIMENTAL MEDICINE   (Hungary)

Author keywords

Bithorax complex; DNA domain boundary; Drosophila; Fab 7; iab 6; Polycomb response element

Indexed keywords

CIS ACTING ELEMENT; DNA;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CHROMATIN; CONTROLLED STUDY; DROSOPHILA; EMBRYO; ENHANCER REGION; GENE DELETION; GENE STRUCTURE; HOMEOBOX; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REGULATOR GENE; TRANSPOSON;

ABDOMEN; ANIMALS; ANIMALS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; CHROMATIN; CROSSES, GENETIC; DNA TRANSPOSABLE ELEMENTS; DROSOPHILA; DROSOPHILA PROTEINS; EMBRYO, NONMAMMALIAN; ENHANCER ELEMENTS (GENETICS); GENE DELETION; GENES, INSECT; HOMOZYGOTE; INSECT PROTEINS; MUTATION; ORGAN SPECIFICITY; PHENOTYPE; RECOMBINANT FUSION PROTEINS; REGULATORY SEQUENCES, NUCLEIC ACID; THORAX;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 0030995695     PISSN: 09501991     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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