A 5.9-kb tandem repeat at the euchromatin-heterochromatin boundary of the X chromosome of Drosophila melanogaster

Molecular Genetics and Genomics

Volumn 267, Issue 5, 2002, Pages 647-655

  O'Hare, K ^a,b   Chadwick, B ^a   Constantinou, A ^a   Davis, A ^a   Mitchelson, A ^a   Tudor, M ^a  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Drosophila; Heterochromatin; Repeated sequence; Transposable element

Indexed keywords

REPETITIVE DNA;

ARTICLE; CHROMOSOME ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; COSMID; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; EUCHROMATIN; GENETIC CONSERVATION; GENOME ANALYSIS; GEOGRAPHIC ORIGIN; HETEROCHROMATIN; LONG TERMINAL REPEAT; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROPOSON; SPECIES COMPARISON; TANDEM REPEAT; X CHROMOSOME;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CHROMOSOME WALKING; DNA TRANSPOSABLE ELEMENTS; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; EUCHROMATIN; HETEROCHROMATIN; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYSICAL CHROMOSOME MAPPING; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; TANDEM REPEAT SEQUENCES; X CHROMOSOME;

DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; MELANOGASTER;

EID: 0036329647     PISSN: 16174615     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00438-002-0698-x     Document Type: Article

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