Dosage compensation in flies: Mechanism, models, mystery

FEBS Letters

Volumn 579, Issue 15, 2005, Pages 3258-3263

  Straub, Tobias ^a   Dahlsveen, Ina K ^a   Becker, Peter B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Chromatin; Chromosome; Dosage compensation; Histone acetylation; Transcription

Indexed keywords

CHROMOSOME; DROSOPHILA; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE TARGETING; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; MOLECULAR MODEL; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SHORT SURVEY; X CHROMOSOME;

ANIMALS; DOSAGE COMPENSATION, GENETIC; DROSOPHILA; MODELS, GENETIC; X CHROMOSOME;

EID: 20444410082     PISSN: 00145793     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.febslet.2005.03.050     Document Type: Short Survey

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