Copy and paste: The impact of a new non-L1 retroposon on the gonosomal heterochromatin of Microtus agrestis

Cytogenetic and Genome Research

Volumn 96, Issue 1-4, 2002, Pages 179-185

  Neitzel, H ^a,e   Kalscheuer, V ^b   Singh, A P ^c   Henschel, S ^a,d   Sperling, K ^a  

^a CHARITÉ UNIVERSITÄTSMEDIZIN BERLIN   (Germany)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR MOLECULAR GENETICS   (Germany)

^c CENTRE FOR CELLULAR AND MOLECULAR BIOLOGY   (India)

^d Ernst von Bergmann Hospital   (Germany)

^e HUMBOLDT UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL GENETICS; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; AUTOSOME; CELLULAR DISTRIBUTION; CHROMOSOME STRUCTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSS HYBRIDIZATION; DNA TRANSPOSITION; EUCHROMATIN; GENE SEQUENCE; HETEROCHROMATIN; MEIOSIS; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROPOSON; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SPECIES COMPARISON; SPECIES INVASION; VOLE; X CHROMOSOME; Y CHROMOSOME; ANIMAL; ARVICOLINAE; CHEMISTRY; CHROMOSOME BANDING PATTERN; CHROMOSOME MAP; CYTOLOGY; FEMALE; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GENETICS; GENOME; MALE; MITOSIS; NEWBORN; OOCYTE; SEX CHROMOSOME;

INVERTEBRATA; MAMMALIA; MICROTUS; MICROTUS AGRESTIS; MURINAE; MUS; MUS MUSCULUS; MUSCULUS;

DNA;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; ARVICOLINAE; CHROMOSOME BANDING; CHROMOSOME MAPPING; DNA; FEMALE; GENOME; HETEROCHROMATIN; MALE; MITOSIS; OOCYTES; RETROELEMENTS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, NUCLEIC ACID; SEX CHROMOSOMES; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC; X CHROMOSOME;

EID: 0036044141     PISSN: 14248581     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000063036     Document Type: Article

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