A deficiency screen for dominant suppressors of telomeric silencing in Drosophila

Genetics

Volumn 168, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 1353-1370

  Mason, James M ^a   Ransom, Joshua ^a,b   Konev, Alexander Y ^a,c  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH SCIENCES   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c Post Genomics   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; AUTOSOMAL DISORDER; CHROMOSOME 2; DROSOPHILA; GENE SILENCING; GENETIC SCREENING; HETEROCHROMATIN; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SUPPRESSOR GENE; TELOMERE; TRANSGENE;

ANIMALS; CHROMOSOME MAPPING; DROSOPHILA; EYE; GENE SILENCING; GENETIC MARKERS; MEIOSIS; PIGMENTATION; RECOMBINATION, GENETIC; TELOMERE;

ARACHNIDA; HEXAPODA;

EID: 10844286385     PISSN: 00166731     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1534/genetics.104.030676     Document Type: Article

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