RNAs templating chromatin structure for dosage compensation in animals

BioEssays

Volumn 25, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 434-442

  Wutz, Anton ^a  

^a RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF MOLECULAR PATHOLOGY   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RNA;

ANIMAL; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CHROMATIN STRUCTURE; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; NONHUMAN; REGULATORY MECHANISM; REVIEW; RNA STRUCTURE; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

ANIMALS; CHROMATIN; DOSAGE COMPENSATION, GENETIC; DROSOPHILA PROTEINS; HUMANS; MACROMOLECULAR SUBSTANCES; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; RNA; RNA, UNTRANSLATED; RNA-BINDING PROTEINS; TEMPLATES, GENETIC; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; X CHROMOSOME;

ANIMALIA; MAMMALIA;

EID: 0038218026     PISSN: 02659247     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/bies.10274     Document Type: Review

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