The rox1 and rox2 RNAs are essential components of the compensasome, which mediates dosage compensation in Drosophila

Molecular Cell

Volumn 4, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 117-122

  Franke, Axel ^a   Baker, Bruce S ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CELLULAR DISTRIBUTION; DROSOPHILA; GENETIC ANALYSIS; NONHUMAN; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; RNA ANALYSIS; X CHROMOSOME;

EID: 0033166348     PISSN: 10972765     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1097-2765(00)80193-8     Document Type: Article

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