Small RNA-directed heterochromatin formation in the context of development: What flies might learn from fission yeast

Biochimica et Biophysica Acta - Gene Regulatory Mechanisms

Volumn 1789, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 3-16

  Huisinga, Kathryn L ^a   Elgin, Sarah C R ^a  

^a WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Cell cycle; Drosophila melanogaster; Heterochromatin; S. pombe; Small RNA; Transposable element

Indexed keywords

RNA;

ARABIDOPSIS; CELL CYCLE; CHROMATIN STRUCTURE; DEVELOPMENT; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; FLY; GENE SILENCING; HETEROCHROMATIN; MODEL; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; RNA INTERFERENCE; SCHIZOSACCHAROMYCES POMBE; SOMATIC CELL; TRANSPOSON; VERTEBRATE; YEAST;

ANIMALS; ARABIDOPSIS; DNA TRANSPOSABLE ELEMENTS; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; GENE SILENCING; HETEROCHROMATIN; RNA, FUNGAL; RNA, PLANT; RNA, SMALL INTERFERING; SCHIZOSACCHAROMYCES;

ANIMALIA; ARABIDOPSIS THALIANA; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; SCHIZOSACCHAROMYCES POMBE; SCHIZOSACCHAROMYCETACEAE;

EID: 59349085770     PISSN: 18749399     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bbagrm.2008.08.002     Document Type: Review

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