Measuring the rates of transcriptional elongation in the female Drosophila melanogaster germ line by nuclear run-on

Cold Spring Harbor Symposia on Quantitative Biology

Volumn 71, Issue , 2006, Pages 335-341

  Sigova, A ^a   Vagin, V ^a   Zamore, P D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GYPSY PROTEIN; MALE SPECIFIC TRANSCRIPT 40; MESSENGER RNA; RNA POLYMERASE II; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; DNA DIRECTED DNA POLYMERASE ALPHA; PRIMER DNA;

ANALYTIC METHOD; ARTICLE; CELL NUCLEUS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; FEMALE; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GERM LINE; HOMOZYGOSITY; LONG TERMINAL REPEAT; NONHUMAN; NUCLEAR RUN ON ANALYSIS; NUCLEOTIDE REPEAT; OVARY; POSTTRANSCRIPTIONAL GENE SILENCING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; RETROPOSON; RNA PROBE; RNA SEQUENCE; RNA SYNTHESIS; STEADY STATE; TRANSCRIPTION ELONGATION; TRANSPOSON; ANIMAL; GENE; GENE SILENCING; GENETICS; IN VITRO STUDY; KINETICS; METABOLISM; MUTATION; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CELL NUCLEUS; DNA POLYMERASE II; DNA PRIMERS; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; FEMALE; GENE SILENCING; GENES, INSECT; KINETICS; MUTATION; OVARY; REPETITIVE SEQUENCES, NUCLEIC ACID; RETROELEMENTS; RNA, MESSENGER; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

EID: 34250686280     PISSN: 00917451     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1101/sqb.2006.71.031     Document Type: Conference Paper

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