Distant liaisons: Long-range enhancer-promoter interactions in Drosophila

Current Opinion in Genetics and Development

Volumn 9, Issue 5, 1999, Pages 505-514

  Dorsett, Dale ^a  

^a MEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING CANCER CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HOMEODOMAIN PROTEIN;

ANIMAL CELL; DROSOPHILA; ENHANCER REGION; MUTANT; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN DNA BINDING; REVIEW; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION;

ANIMALIA; ARACHNIDA; DROSOPHILA; HEXAPODA;

EID: 0032820999     PISSN: 0959437X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0959-437X(99)00002-7     Document Type: Review

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