Loss-of-function alleles of the JIL-1 histone H3S10 kinase enhance position-effect variegation at pericentric sites in Drosophila heterochromatin

Genetics

Volumn 176, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 1355-1358

  Bao, Xiaomin ^a   Deng, Huai ^a   Johansen, Jørgen ^a   Girton, Jack ^a   Johansen, Kristen M ^a  

^a IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HISTONE;

ALLELE; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CHROMATIN STRUCTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA SEQUENCE; DROSOPHILA; FEMALE; GENE SILENCING; GENETIC ANALYSIS; HETEROCHROMATIN; MALE; NONHUMAN; POSITION EFFECT VARIEGATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION;

ANIMALS; CHROMATIN; CHROMOSOME MAPPING; DNA; DROSOPHILA; DROSOPHILA PROTEINS; GENE SILENCING; GENES, REPORTER; HETEROCHROMATIN; LOSS OF HETEROZYGOSITY; PROTEIN-SERINE-THREONINE KINASES; SEQUENCE DELETION;

EID: 34250788247     PISSN: 00166731     EISSN: 00166731     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1534/genetics.107.073676     Document Type: Article

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