Genetic and molecular analysis of wings apart-like (wapl), a gene controlling heterochromatin organization in Drosophila melanogaster

Genetics

Volumn 154, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 1693-1710

  Vernì, Fiammetta ^a   Gandhi, Renu ^b   Goldberg, Michael L ^b   Gatti, Maurizio ^a  

^a SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

^b Department of Obstetrics Gynecology   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPLEMENTARY DNA; DNA; MESSENGER RNA; RNA;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CHROMATIN; CONTROLLED STUDY; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; FEMALE; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; GENOME; HETEROCHROMATIN; MALE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SISTER CHROMATID; X CHROMOSOME;

ANIMALS; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; FEMALE; GERM-LINE MUTATION; HETEROCHROMATIN; LINKAGE (GENETICS); MALE; MEIOSIS; MITOSIS; PHENOTYPE; RNA, MESSENGER; X CHROMOSOME;

ANIMALIA; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; EUKARYOTA; HEXAPODA; MELANOGASTER;

EID: 0034117543     PISSN: 00166731     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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