Cosuppression of nonhomologous transgenes in Drosophila involves mutually related endogenous sequences

Cell

Volumn 99, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 35-46

  Pal Bhadra, Manika ^a   Bhadra, Utpal ^a   Birchler, James A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; DROSOPHILA; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE REPRESSION; GENE SEQUENCE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; TRANSGENE;

DROSOPHILA;

EID: 0033215511     PISSN: 00928674     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0092-8674(00)80060-4     Document Type: Article

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