Interaction study of the male specific lethal (MSL) complex and trans-acting dosage effects in metafemales of drosophila melanogaster

Cytogenetic and Genome Research

Volumn 124, Issue 3-4, 2009, Pages 298-311

  Sun, X ^a   Birchler, J A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI   (United States)

Author keywords

Dosage compensation; Histone acetylation; Metafemales; MSL2

Indexed keywords

HISTONE ACETYLTRANSFERASE; DNA BINDING PROTEIN; DROSOPHILA PROTEIN; MOF PROTEIN, DROSOPHILA; MSL 2 PROTEIN, DROSOPHILA; MSL-2 PROTEIN, DROSOPHILA; NUCLEAR PROTEIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

ACETYLATION; ARTICLE; CHROMATIN; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIPLOIDY; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; MALE; MALE SPECIFIC LETHAL 2; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN INTERACTION; TRANSGENICS; UPREGULATION; X CHROMOSOME; ANIMAL; GENETICS; METABOLISM; PHYSIOLOGY; TRANSGENIC ANIMAL; ULTRASTRUCTURE; X CHROMOSOMAL INHERITANCE;

DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; DOSAGE COMPENSATION, GENETIC; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; DROSOPHILA PROTEINS; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENES, X-LINKED; HISTONE ACETYLTRANSFERASES; MALE; NUCLEAR PROTEINS; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; X CHROMOSOME;

EID: 67849101303     PISSN: 14248581     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000218134     Document Type: Article

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