Local enrichment with homopolymeric (dA/dT) DNA in genomes of some lower dipterans and Drosophila melanogaster

Chromosoma

Volumn 111, Issue 7, 2003, Pages 455-460

  Stocker, Ann Jacob ^a   Gorab, Eduardo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA; POLYMER; RNA;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CHIRONOMIDAE; CHROMOSOMAL LOCALIZATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA DETERMINATION; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; FEMALE; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENETIC STABILITY; GENOME; HETEROCHROMATIN; HUMAN; HYBRID; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; LABELING INDEX; MALE; MITOSIS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POLYTENE CHROMOSOME; RNA ANALYSIS; RNA STABILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SERODIAGNOSIS; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TAXONOMY;

CHIRONOMUS; DIPTERA; DROSOPHILA; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; MELANOGASTER; RHYNCHOSCIARA;

EID: 0038413903     PISSN: 00095915     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00412-003-0230-z     Document Type: Article

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