Meiotic pairing and imprinted X chromatin assembly in Caenorhabditis elegans

Nature Genetics

Volumn 36, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 100-105

  Bean, Christopher J ^a   Schaner, Christine E ^a   Kelly, William G ^a  

^a EMORY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HISTONE H3;

ARTICLE; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CHROMOSOME PAIRING; EPIGENETICS; GAMETOGENESIS; GENE LOCUS; GENE SILENCING; GENOME IMPRINTING; MAMMAL; MEIOSIS; METHYLATION; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPERMATOGENESIS; X CHROMATIN; X CHROMOSOME INACTIVATION;

ANIMALS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CHROMATIN; GAMETOGENESIS; GENOMIC IMPRINTING; HISTONES; MALE; MEIOSIS; METHYLATION; X CHROMOSOME;

CAENORHABDITIS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; MAMMALIA;

EID: 0347716447     PISSN: 10614036     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ng1283     Document Type: Article

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