Chromatin silencing and the maintenance of a functional germline in Caenorhabditis elegans

Development

Volumn 125, Issue 13, 1998, Pages 2451-2456

  Kelly, William G ^a   Fire, Andrew ^a  

^a GEOPHYSICAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Caenorhabditis elegans; Germline; mes genes; Polycomb group; Repeat dependent silencing

Indexed keywords

PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CHROMATIN; EMBRYO; GERM LINE; NEMATODE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPRESSOR GENE; TRANSGENE;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CHROMATIN; CROSSES, GENETIC; FEMALE; FERTILITY; GENES, HELMINTH; GENES, REPORTER; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEINS; HELMINTH PROTEINS; HERMAPHRODITISM; INFERTILITY, FEMALE; LUMINESCENT PROTEINS; MALE; RECOMBINANT FUSION PROTEINS; REPRESSOR PROTEINS; ZYGOTE;

EID: 0031926583     PISSN: 09501991     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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