Two distinct domains in Drosophila melanogaster telomeres

Genetics

Volumn 171, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 1767-1777

  Biessmann, Harald ^a   Prasad, Sudha ^b   Semeshin, Valery F ^c   Andreyeva, Eugenia N ^c   Nguyen, Quang ^d   Walter, Marika F ^a   Mason, James M ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

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

^c INSTITUTE OF CYTOLOGY AND GENETICS   (Russian Federation)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

REPETITIVE DNA;

ARTICLE; CHROMOSOME STRUCTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA BASE COMPOSITION; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; EUCHROMATIN; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE INSERTION SEQUENCE; GENE SILENCING; HETEROCHROMATIN; MALE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POLYTENE CHROMOSOME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPORTER GENE; RETROPOSON; TELOMERE; TERMINAL SEQUENCE; TRANSGENE;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; BLOTTING, SOUTHERN; CHROMOSOMES; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; DNA PRIMERS; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; GENE COMPONENTS; GENOMIC LIBRARY; HETEROCHROMATIN; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; RETROELEMENTS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; TELOMERE; TERMINAL REPEAT SEQUENCES; TRANSGENES;

DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER;

EID: 33645131928     PISSN: 00166731     EISSN: 00166731     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1534/genetics.105.048827     Document Type: Article

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