The promoter of the heterochromatic Drosophila telomeric retrotransposon, HeT-A, is active when moved into euchromatic locations

Genetics

Volumn 163, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 625-635

  George, Janet A ^a   Pardue, Mary Lou ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CELL TYPE; CHROMATIN STRUCTURE; CHROMOSOME ISOLATION; DEVELOPMENT; DEVELOPMENTAL STAGE; DIPLOIDY; DNA REPLICATION; DNA TRANSPOSITION; DROSOPHILA; EUCHROMATIN; GENE CONSTRUCT; GENE CONTROL; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE REPLICATION; GENETIC TRANSFECTION; HETEROCHROMATIN; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; REPORTER GENE; RETROPOSON; TELOMERE; TISSUE DIFFERENTIATION; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION;

ANIMALS; ATP-BINDING CASSETTE TRANSPORTERS; DROSOPHILA; DROSOPHILA PROTEINS; EUCHROMATIN; EYE PROTEINS; GENES, REPORTER; HETEROCHROMATIN; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); RETROELEMENTS;

ARACHNIDA; HEXAPODA;

EID: 0037296371     PISSN: 00166731     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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