Histone H3 lysine 9 acetylation pattern suggests that X and B chromosomes are silenced during entire male meiosis in a grasshopper

Cytogenetic and Genome Research

Volumn 119, Issue 1-2, 2007, Pages 135-142

  Cabrero, J ^a   Teruel, M ^a   Carmona, F D ^a   Jimenez R ^a   Camacho, J P M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRANADA   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA; HISTONE H3; LYSINE;

ACETYLATION; ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; AUTOSOME; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA STRAND BREAKAGE; EMBRYO; GENE SILENCING; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; GRASSHOPPER; HETEROCHROMATIN; INSECT; MALE; MEIOSIS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN PHOSPHORYLATION; SPERMATOCYTE; TESTIS; X CHROMOSOME;

ACETYLATION; ANIMALS; CELLS, CULTURED; CHROMATIN; CHROMOSOMES; GENE SILENCING; GRASSHOPPERS; HISTONES; LYSINE; MALE; MEIOSIS; MICE;

EYPREPOCNEMIS PLORANS; SYNAPSIS;

EID: 37549062634     PISSN: 14248581     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000109630     Document Type: Article

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