Control of gene expression in Xenopus early development

Developmental Genetics

Volumn 22, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 122-131

  Hair, Alan ^a   Prioleau, Marie Noëlle ^a   Vassetzky, Yegor ^a   Méchali, Marcel ^a  

^a INSTITUT JACQUES MONOD   (France)

Author keywords

Chromatin; Matrix attachment; Midblastula transition; Transcription

Indexed keywords

DEOXYRIBONUCLEASE I;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BLASTULA; CHROMATIN; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMBRYO; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; GENE CONTROL; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; XENOPUS;

ANIMALS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; GENOME; TRANS-ACTIVATION (GENETICS); XENOPUS LAEVIS;

EID: 0031922636     PISSN: 0192253X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1520-6408(1998)22:2<122::AID-DVG2>3.0.CO;2-8     Document Type: Article

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