A reexamination of spreading of position-effect variegation in the white-roughest region of Drosophila melanogaster

Genetics

Volumn 154, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 259-272

  Talbert, Paul B ^a   Henikoff, Steven ^a  

^a HOWARD HUGHES MEDICAL INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CHROMOSOME BREAKAGE; CHROMOSOME REARRANGEMENT; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE INACTIVATION; GENE SILENCING; HETEROCHROMATIN; MOSAICISM; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CELL ADHESION MOLECULES, NEURONAL; DNA PRIMERS; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; DROSOPHILA PROTEINS; EYE PROTEINS; FEMALE; GENE REARRANGEMENT; GENES, DOMINANT; INSECT PROTEINS; MALE; REPETITIVE SEQUENCES, NUCLEIC ACID;

ANIMALIA; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; MELANOGASTER;

EID: 0033957944     PISSN: 00166731     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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