Transcription activates repressed domains in the drosophila bithorax complex

Development

Volumn 129, Issue 21, 2002, Pages 4923-4930

  Bender, Welcome ^a   Fitzgerald, Daniel P ^a  

^a HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

Bithorax; Drosophila; Polycomb; Transcription; Ultraabdominal

Indexed keywords

HOMEODOMAIN PROTEIN;

ABDOMEN; ALLELE; ARTICLE; COMPLEX FORMATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DROSOPHILA; EMBRYO; EMBRYO SEGMENTATION; GENE INSERTION; GENE MUTATION; GENE REPRESSION; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DOMAIN; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

DROSOPHILA; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; EUKARYOTA; INSERTION SEQUENCES; MELANOGASTER;

EID: 0036849525     PISSN: 09501991     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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