Comparative genomics of Drosophila and human core promoters

Genome Biology

Volumn 7, Issue 7, 2006, Pages

  FitzGerald, Peter C ^a   Sturgill, David ^b   Shyakhtenko, Andrey ^a   Oliver, Brian ^b   Vinson, Charles ^a  

^a NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF DIABETES AND DIGESTIVE AND KIDNEY DISEASES   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GENOMIC DNA; MESSENGER RNA;

ARTICLE; CALCULATION; CONSENSUS SEQUENCE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DNA SEQUENCE; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; GENE CLUSTER; GENE CONTROL; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC CODE; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GENOMICS; HUMAN; NONHUMAN; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; PROTEIN MOTIF; ANIMAL; COMPARATIVE STUDY; GENETICS;

DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; EUKARYOTA;

ANIMALS; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; GENOMICS; HUMANS; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); RNA, MESSENGER; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

EID: 33747299885     PISSN: 1474760X     EISSN: 1474760X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/gb-2006-7-7-r53     Document Type: Article

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