On the mode of gene-dosage compensation in Drosophila

Genetics

Volumn 145, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 729-736

  Arkhipova, Irina ^a   Li, Jingjing ^a   Meselson, Matthew ^a  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; AUTOSOME; CONTROLLED STUDY; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; EUCHROMATIN; FEMALE; GENE ACTIVITY; GENE DOSAGE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETIC TRANSFORMATION; HETEROCHROMATIN; LARVA; MALE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; X CHROMOSOME LINKAGE;

ANIMALS; DOSAGE COMPENSATION, GENETIC; DROSOPHILA; DROSOPHILA PROTEINS; FEMALE; HEAT-SHOCK PROTEINS; HETEROCHROMATIN; MALE; RNA, MESSENGER; SEX CHARACTERISTICS; SEX FACTORS; X CHROMOSOME;

ANIMALIA; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; DROSOPHILA PSEUDOOBSCURA; MELANOGASTER;

EID: 0031020771     PISSN: 00166731     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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