white+ Transgene insertions presenting a dorsal/ventral pattern define a single cluster of homeobox genes that is silenced by the Polycomb-group proteins in Drosophila melanogaster

Genetics

Volumn 149, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 257-275

  Netter, Sophie ^a   Fauvarque, Marie Odile ^b   Corral, Ruth Diez Del ^c   Dura, Jean Maurice ^d   Coen, Dario ^a  

^a CNRS   (France)

^b CEA GRENOBLE   (France)

^c UNIVERSIDAD AUTÓNOMA DE MADRID   (Spain)

^d UNIVERSITÉ PARIS SACLAY   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GENE PRODUCT;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CHROMATIN STRUCTURE; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; GENE CLUSTER; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE INSERTION; HOMEOBOX; NONHUMAN; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PIGMENTATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TRANSGENE;

ANIMALIA; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; MELANOGASTER;

EID: 0031833797     PISSN: 00166731     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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