Developmental transcriptional-competence model for a histone variant and a unicellular origin scenario for transcriptional-multipotency mechanisms

Evolution and Development

Volumn 9, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 208-211

  Arenas Mena, César ^a  

^a SAN DIEGO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HISTONE;

DNA; GENE EXPRESSION; GENOME; LARVA; METAZOAN; MODEL; PROTEIN;

ANIMAL; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BLASTOMERE; EVOLUTION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; METABOLISM; MULTIPOTENT STEM CELL; PHYSIOLOGY; REVIEW;

ANIMALS; BLASTOMERES; EVOLUTION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; HISTONES; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MULTIPOTENT STEM CELLS;

EID: 34248335343     PISSN: 1520541X     EISSN: 1525142X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1525-142X.2007.00156.x     Document Type: Review

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