Loss of the modifiers of variegation Su(var)3-7 or HP1 impacts male X polytene chromosome morphology and dosage compensation

Journal of Cell Science

Volumn 118, Issue 21, 2005, Pages 5047-5057

  Spierer, Anne ^a   Seum, Carole ^a   Delattre, Marion ^a   Spierer, Pierre ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GENEVA   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Dosage compensation; Drosophila; HP1; Mitotic chromosome; Polytene chromosome; Su(var)3 7

Indexed keywords

HETEROCHROMATIN PROTEIN 1; MUTANT PROTEIN; NUCLEAR PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; CHROMOSOME BANDING PATTERN; CHROMOSOME LOSS; CHROMOSOME MUTATION; CHROMOSOME STRUCTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEPOLYMERIZATION; DEVELOPMENTAL DISORDER; DROSOPHILA; EPIGENETICS; GENE DOSAGE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE INTERACTION; GENE OVEREXPRESSION; GENE SILENCING; GENETIC CODE; HETEROCHROMATIN; LETHALITY; MALE; NONHUMAN; ORGAN SIZE; PHENOTYPE; POLYTENE CHROMOSOME; POSITION EFFECT VARIEGATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; SEXUAL SELECTION; X CHROMOSOME;

ANIMALS; CHROMOSOMAL PROTEINS, NON-HISTONE; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; DOSAGE COMPENSATION, GENETIC; DROSOPHILA PROTEINS; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; GENE SILENCING; GENES, OVERLAPPING; HETEROCHROMATIN; INTERPHASE; MALE; MITOSIS; MUTAGENESIS, SITE-DIRECTED; PHENOTYPE; PROTEIN BINDING; RECOMBINATION, GENETIC; SUPPRESSION, GENETIC; X CHROMOSOME;

EID: 27944450062     PISSN: 00219533     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1242/jcs.02623     Document Type: Article

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