Dosage compensation and intercalary heterochromatin in X chromosomes of Drosophila melanogaster

Chromosoma

Volumn 111, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 106-113

  Alekseyenko, Artyom A ^a   Demakova, Olga V ^a   Belyaeva, Elena S ^a   Makarevich, Grigorii F ^b   Kotlikova, Irina V ^b   Nöthiger, Rolf ^c   Zhimulev, Igor F ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF CYTOLOGY AND GENETICS   (Russian Federation)

^b NOVOSIBIRSK STATE UNIVERSITY   (Russian Federation)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA; PROTEIN; PROTEIN MSL 2; PROTEIN SXL; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

5' UNTRANSLATED REGION; ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CHROMOSOME PAIRING; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DNA REPLICATION; DNA TRANSCRIPTION; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; EUCHROMATIN; FEMALE; GENE DOSAGE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE FREQUENCY; GENE FUNCTION; GENE LOCATION; GENE MUTATION; GENE REPRESSION; GENETIC STRAIN; GENOTYPE; HETEROCHROMATIN; HETEROZYGOSITY; HYPOTHESIS; MEASUREMENT; NONHUMAN; POLYTENE CHROMOSOME; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS; SEX DIFFERENCE; SOUTHERN BLOTTING; TRANSGENE; X CHROMOSOME;

ANIMALIA; ARACHNIDA; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; HEXAPODA; MELANOGASTER;

EID: 0036664509     PISSN: 00095915     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00412-002-0191-7     Document Type: Article

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