Sequence analysis of a functional Drosophila centromere

Genome Research

Volumn 13, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 182-194

  Sun, Xiaoping ^a   Le, Hiep D ^a   Wahlstrom, Janice M ^a   Karpen, Gary H ^a  

^a SALK INSTITUTE FOR BIOLOGICAL STUDIES   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADENINE; CYTOSINE; SATELLITE DNA; THYMINE;

ARTICLE; CENTROMERE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA MICROARRAY; DNA POLYMORPHISM; DNA SEQUENCE; DNA STRUCTURE; DROSOPHILA; EUKARYOTE; HETEROCHROMATIN; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE REPEAT; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; TRANSPOSON; UNINDEXED SEQUENCE; ANIMAL; CHROMOSOME; CONTIG MAPPING; DNA BASE COMPOSITION; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; GENE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; METHODOLOGY; MOLECULAR CLONING; MOLECULAR GENETICS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; VARIABLE NUMBER OF TANDEM REPEAT;

EUKARYOTA; TRANSPOSONS;

ANIMALS; BASE COMPOSITION; CENTROMERE; CHROMOSOMES; CLONING, MOLECULAR; CONSERVED SEQUENCE; CONTIG MAPPING; DNA TRANSPOSABLE ELEMENTS; DNA, SATELLITE; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; GENES, INSECT; MINISATELLITE REPEATS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTAGENESIS, INSERTIONAL; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

EID: 0037318262     PISSN: 10889051     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1101/gr.681703     Document Type: Article

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