14 Pairing-sensitive silencing, polycomb group response elements, and transposon homing in Drosophila

Advances in Genetics

Volumn 46, Issue , 2002, Pages 421-438

  Akassis, Judith ^a  

^a EUNICE KENNEDY SHRIVER NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF CHILD HEALTH AND HUMAN DEVELOPMENT   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ENGRAILED HOMEOBOX PROTEINS; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

ANIMAL; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CHROMOSOME PAIRING; DROSOPHILA; GENE; GENE SILENCING; GENETICS; MUTATION; PRENATAL DEVELOPMENT; REVIEW; TRANSPOSON;

ANIMALS; CHROMOSOME PAIRING; DNA TRANSPOSABLE ELEMENTS; DROSOPHILA; GENE SILENCING; GENES, INSECT; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEINS; MODELS, GENETIC; MUTATION; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

EID: 0036363882     PISSN: 00652660     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1016/s0065-2660(02)46015-4     Document Type: Review

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