The regulatory content of intergenic DNA shapes genome architecture

Genome Biology

Volumn 5, Issue 4, 2004, Pages

  Nelson, Craig E ^a   Hersh, Bradley M ^a   Carroll, Sean B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

Additional Data File; Gene Ontology; Genome Architecture; Regulatory Complexity; Regulatory Information

Indexed keywords

HELMINTH DNA; SPACER DNA;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CHROMOSOME MAP; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; GENE; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE ORDER; GENETICS; GENOME; METHODOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; REGULATORY SEQUENCE; X CHROMOSOME;

ANIMALS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; DNA, HELMINTH; DNA, INTERGENIC; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE ORDER; GENES, HELMINTH; GENES, INSECT; GENOME; PHYSICAL CHROMOSOME MAPPING; REGULATORY SEQUENCES, NUCLEIC ACID; X CHROMOSOME;

EID: 4944260940     PISSN: 14747596     EISSN: 1474760X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/gb-2004-5-4-r25     Document Type: Article

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