A dicentric chromosome of Drosophila melanogaster showing alternate centromere inactivation

Chromosoma

Volumn 109, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 190-196

  Agudo, Marta ^a   Abad, José P ^a   Molina, Isabel ^a   Losada, Ana ^a,b   Ripoll, Pedro ^a   Villasante, Alfredo ^a  

^a CENTRO DE BIOLOGÍA MOLECULAR SEVERO OCHOA   (Spain)

^b Simons Center for Quantitative Biology   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CENTROMERE; CYTOGENETICS; DICENTRIC CHROMOSOME; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; GENE SEQUENCE; HETEROCHROMATIN; NONHUMAN; TELOMERE; Y CHROMOSOME;

DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; MELANOGASTER;

EID: 0033919483     PISSN: 00095915     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s004120050427     Document Type: Article

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