Nucleolar dominance: A 'David and Goliath' chromatin imprinting process

Current Genomics

Volumn 3, Issue 6, 2002, Pages 563-576

  Viegas, W ^a   Neves, N ^a   Silva, M ^a   Caperta, A ^a   Morais Cecilio L ^a  

^a INSTITUTO SUPERIOR DE AGRONOMIA   (Portugal)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

REPETITIVE DNA; RIBOSOME RNA;

CELL NUCLEUS; CHROMATIN STRUCTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CREPIS; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE INTERACTION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENE SILENCING; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENOME IMPRINTING; GENOME SIZE; HETEROCHROMATIN; HYBRID; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOLUS; PARENTAGE ANALYSIS; PLANT GENETICS; REVIEW; RNA GENE;

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EID: 0036888966     PISSN: 13892029     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2174/1389202023350237     Document Type: Review

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