Enhancer blocking and transvection at the drosophila apterous locus

Genetics

Volumn 178, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 127-143

  Gohl, Daryl ^a   Müller, Martin ^b   Pirrotta, Vincenzo ^c   Affolter, Markus ^b   Schedl, Paul ^a  

^a PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BASEL   (Switzerland)

^c RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AP GENE; ARTICLE; CHROMOSOME ANALYSIS; CHROMOSOME PAIRING; CONTROLLED STUDY; DROSOPHILA; FEMALE; GENE; GENE DELETION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE INTERACTION; GENE LOCUS; GENE MUTATION; MALE; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ALLELES; ANIMALS; DNA TRANSPOSABLE ELEMENTS; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; DROSOPHILA PROTEINS; ENHANCER ELEMENTS (GENETICS); GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; HETEROZYGOTE; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEINS; MODELS, GENETIC; MUTAGENESIS, INSERTIONAL; MUTATION; PHENOTYPE; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); REPRESSOR PROTEINS; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; WING;

DROSOPHILA APTEROUS;

EID: 40849103015     PISSN: 00166731     EISSN: 00166731     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1534/genetics.107.077768     Document Type: Article

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