Transposable elements as artisans of the heterochromatic genome in Drosophila melanogaster

Cytogenetic and Genome Research

Volumn 110, Issue 1-4, 2005, Pages 165-172

  Dimitri, P ^a   Corradini, N ^a   Rossi, F ^a   Mei, E ^a   Zhimulev, I F ^b   Verni F ^a  

^a SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

^b INSTITUTE OF CYTOLOGY AND GENETICS   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; EUKARYOTE; GENOME; HETEROCHROMATIN; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MOLECULAR INTERACTION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; TRANSPOSON;

ANIMALS; DNA TRANSPOSABLE ELEMENTS; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; GENE REARRANGEMENT; GENOME; HETEROCHROMATIN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RECOMBINATION, GENETIC; RETROELEMENTS; SEQUENCE DELETION;

DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; EUKARYOTA; ZEA MAYS;

EID: 23844523785     PISSN: 14248581     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000084949     Document Type: Review

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