Heterochromatin function in complex genomes

Biochimica et Biophysica Acta - Reviews on Cancer

Volumn 1470, Issue 1, 2000, Pages

  Henikoff, Steven ^a  

^a HOWARD HUGHES MEDICAL INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Centromere; Heterochromatin; Position effect variegation; Satellite sequence; Transposon

Indexed keywords

SATELLITE DNA;

CENTROMERE; DNA METHYLATION; DNA SEQUENCE; DROSOPHILA; GENOME; HETEROCHROMATIN; MITOSIS; NOTE; POSITION EFFECT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TRANSPOSON;

EID: 0033985560     PISSN: 0304419X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0304-419X(99)00034-7     Document Type: Article

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