Position-effect variegation in Drosophila melanogaster X chromosome inversion with a breakpoint in a satellite block and its suppression in a secondary rearrangement

Chromosoma

Volumn 106, Issue 8, 1997, Pages 520-525

  Tolchkov, Eugene V ^a   Kramerova, Irina A ^a   Lavrov, Sergei A ^a   Rasheva, Vanya I ^a   Bonaccorsi, Silvia ^b   Alatortsev, Vladimir E ^a   Gvozdev, Vladimir A ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF MOLECULAR GENETICS   (Russian Federation)

^b SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SATELLITE DNA; VINCULIN;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA SEQUENCE; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; EUCHROMATIN; FEMALE; GENE REARRANGEMENT; HETEROCHROMATIN; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; PERICENTRIC CHROMOSOME INVERSION; POSITION EFFECT; X CHROMOSOME; X RAY;

ANIMALS; CHROMOSOME BREAKAGE; DNA, SATELLITE; DOSAGE COMPENSATION, GENETIC; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; HETEROCHROMATIN; INVERSION, CHROMOSOME; SUPPRESSION, GENETIC; X CHROMOSOME;

ANIMALIA; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; MELANOGASTER;

EID: 0031470715     PISSN: 00095915     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s004120050274     Document Type: Article

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