HP2-like protein: A new piece of the facultative heterochromatin puzzle

Chromosoma

Volumn 116, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 249-258

  Volpi, Silvia ^a   Bongiorni, Silvia ^a   Prantera, Giorgio ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TUSCIA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EPITOPE; HETEROCHROMATIN PROTEIN 1; HETEROCHROMATIN PROTEIN 2 LIKE PROTEIN; NUCLEAR PROTEIN; PROTEIN ANTIBODY; RNA; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CHROMATIN; CHROMOSOME; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOLOGY; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; EMBRYO; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; FEMALE; HAPLOIDY; HETEROCHROMATIN; MALE; MEALYBUG; NONHUMAN; PLANOCOCCUS CITREUS; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; RNA INTERFERENCE; TELOMERE;

ANIMALS; ANTIBODIES; CHROMOSOMAL PROTEINS, NON-HISTONE; CHROMOSOMES; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; FEMALE; HEMIPTERA; HETEROCHROMATIN; INSECT PROTEINS; MALE; RNA INTERFERENCE; RNA, DOUBLE-STRANDED;

DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; PLANOCOCCUS CITRI; PSEUDOCOCCIDAE;

EID: 34248215183     PISSN: 00095915     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00412-007-0095-7     Document Type: Article

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