Repetitive arrays containing a housekeeping gene have altered polytene chromosome morphology in Drosophila

Chromosoma

Volumn 107, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 96-104

  Clark, Denise V ^a,b   Sabl, Joy F ^b,c,d   Henikoff, Steven ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW BRUNSWICK   (Canada)

^b USA   (United States)

^c HOWARD HUGHES MEDICAL INSTITUTE   (United States)

^d NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PIGMENT; REPETITIVE DNA; TRANSPOSASE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DROSOPHILA; EYE COLOR; GENE FUSION; GENE NUMBER; HOUSEKEEPING GENE; MUTAGENESIS; NONHUMAN; POLYTENE CHROMOSOME; PURINE SYNTHESIS; REGULATOR GENE; REPORTER GENE; TRANSGENE; TRANSPOSON;

ANIMALS; CHROMOSOME BANDING; CHROMOSOMES; DNA TRANSPOSABLE ELEMENTS; DROSOPHILA; EYE COLOR; GENE DOSAGE; GENES, INSECT; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); REPETITIVE SEQUENCES, NUCLEIC ACID; SALIVARY GLANDS; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 0031841444     PISSN: 00095915     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s004120050285     Document Type: Article

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