Arrangement of individual human ribosomal DNA fragments on stretched DNA fibers

Histochemistry and Cell Biology

Volumn 110, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 201-205

  Schöfer, Christian ^a   Weipoltshammer, Klara ^a   Almeder, Marlene ^a   Wachtler, Franz ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA FRAGMENT; RIBOSOME DNA;

ARTICLE; DNA DETERMINATION; DNA POLYMORPHISM; DNA SEQUENCE; FLUORESCENCE IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; HELA CELL; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; INTERPHASE; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

CELL NUCLEUS; DNA PROBES; DNA, RIBOSOMAL; HELA CELLS; HUMANS; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION, FLUORESCENCE; INTERPHASE; INTRONS; REPETITIVE SEQUENCES, NUCLEIC ACID; RESTRICTION MAPPING; RIBOSOMES; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

EID: 0031821320     PISSN: 09486143     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s004180050282     Document Type: Article

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