Avian lampbrush chromosomes: A powerful tool for exploration of genome expression

Cytogenetic and Genome Research

Volumn 124, Issue 3-4, 2009, Pages 251-267

  Gaginskaya, E ^a   Kulikova, T ^a   Krasikova, A ^a  

^a ST PETERSBURG STATE UNIVERSITY   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

Chicken genome; Chromosome organization; Lampbrush chromosomes; Non coding RNA; Oocyte nucleus; Oogenesis; Transcription

Indexed keywords

COHESIN; CONDENSIN; RNA; SATELLITE DNA;

AMPHIBIA; CENTROMERE; CHICKEN; CHROMATIN; CHROMOSOME; CHROMOSOME ANALYSIS; CHROMOSOME STRUCTURE; DNA MODIFICATION; DNA SEQUENCE; DNA TRANSCRIPTION; DOMESTIC SPECIES; EPIGENETICS; FOWL; GENE ACTIVITY; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GENOME ANALYSIS; IN VIVO STUDY; LAMPBRUSH CHROMOSOME; MORPHOLOGY; NONHUMAN; OOCYTE DEVELOPMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; RNA INTERFERENCE; ANIMAL; BIRD; GENETIC EPIGENESIS; GENETICS; GENOME; METABOLISM; OOCYTE; PHYSIOLOGY; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

AMPHIBIA; ANIMALIA; AVES;

ANIMALS; BIRDS; CENTROMERE; CHROMATIN; CHROMOSOMES; EPIGENESIS, GENETIC; GENE EXPRESSION; GENOME; OOCYTES; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

EID: 67849085126     PISSN: 14248581     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000218130     Document Type: Review

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