Pairing-dependent mislocalization of a Drosophila brown gene reporter to a heterochromatic environment

Genetics

Volumn 152, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 595-604

  Sass, Georgette L ^a,b   Henikoff, Steven ^a  

^a HOWARD HUGHES MEDICAL INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CHROMOSOME PAIRING; CHROMOSOME STRUCTURE; DNA TRANSPOSITION; DROSOPHILA; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE INACTIVATION; GENE LOCATION; GENE SILENCING; HETEROCHROMATIN; LARVA; NONHUMAN; POSITION EFFECT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPORTER GENE;

ANIMALS; ATP-BINDING CASSETTE TRANSPORTERS; CHROMOSOMES; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; DROSOPHILA PROTEINS; ENHANCER ELEMENTS (GENETICS); EYE COLOR; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENES, REPORTER; HETEROCHROMATIN; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION, FLUORESCENCE; INSECT PROTEINS; MALE; MUTAGENESIS, INSERTIONAL; MUTATION; PHENOTYPE;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 0033016023     PISSN: 00166731     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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