Transcriptional interference mediated by retrotransposons within the genome of their host: Lessons from alleles of the white gene from Drosophila melanogaster

Cytogenetic and Genome Research

Volumn 110, Issue 1-4, 2005, Pages 209-214

  Desset, S ^a   Vaury, Ch ^a,b  

^a INSERM   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ CLERMONT AUVERGNE   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MESSENGER RNA; RNA; SPACER DNA;

ALLELE; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; GENE CONTROL; GENE INSERTION; GENE LOCATION; GENE REPLICATION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENE STRUCTURE; GENETIC MODEL; GENETIC REGULATION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GENOME; GENOME IMPRINTING; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN PROCESSING; REGULATORY SEQUENCE; RETROPOSON; REVIEW; RNA INTERFERENCE; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; EUKARYOTA;

EID: 23844496394     PISSN: 14248581     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000084954     Document Type: Review

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