The even-skipped locus is contained in a 16-kb chromatin domain

Developmental Biology

Volumn 211, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 39-52

  Sackerson, Charles ^a   Fujioka, Miki ^a   Goto, Tadaatsu ^a  

^a THOMAS JEFFERSON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Chromatin; DNaseI hypersensitive site; Drosophila; Even skipped (eve); Gene expression; Muscle; Nervous system; Pair rule; Promoter regions; Segmentation

Indexed keywords

DEOXYRIBONUCLEASE I;

ARTICLE; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM; CHROMATIN; CONTROLLED STUDY; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; EMBRYO; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; EMBRYO SEGMENTATION; GENE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE MUTATION; MUSCLE; NONHUMAN; NORTHERN BLOTTING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TATA BOX;

DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; MELANOGASTER;

EID: 0033168460     PISSN: 00121606     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/dbio.1999.9301     Document Type: Article

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