A high-resolution, nucleosome position map of C. elegans reveals a lack of universal sequence-dictated positioning

Genome Research

Volumn 18, Issue 7, 2008, Pages 1051-1063

  Valouev, Anton ^a   Ichikawa, Jeffrey ^b   Tonthat, Thaisan ^a   Stuart, Jeremy ^b   Ranade, Swati ^b   Peckham, Heather ^b   Zeng, Kathy ^a   Malek, Joel A ^b   Costa, Gina ^b   McKernan, Kevin ^b   Sidow, Arend ^a   Fire, Andrew ^a   Johnson, Steven M ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b Applied Biosystems Framingham   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CHROMATIN STRUCTURE; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC MODEL; GENOME ANALYSIS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOSOME; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CHROMATIN; CHROMOSOME MAPPING; DNA, HELMINTH; GENETIC MARKERS; GENOME, HELMINTH; NUCLEOSOMES;

ANIMALIA; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; METAZOA;

EID: 46449103738     PISSN: 10889051     EISSN: 15495469     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1101/gr.076463.108     Document Type: Article

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