Transcription of pericentromeric heterochromatin in beetles - Satellite dnas as active regulatory elements

Cytogenetic and Genome Research

Volumn 124, Issue 3-4, 2009, Pages 268-276

  Pezer, Z ^a   Ugarkovic D ^a  

^a RUDER BO KOVI INSTITUTE   (Croatia)

Author keywords

Centromere; Coleoptera; Heterochromatin; Satellite DNA; Transcription

Indexed keywords

DNA; DNA DIRECTED RNA POLYMERASE III; POLYADENYLIC ACID; RNA; RNA POLYMERASE II; SATELLITE DNA; SMALL INTERFERING RNA;

ARTICLE; BEETLE; CENTROMERE; CHROMOSOME; CHROMOSOME STRUCTURE; COLEOPTERA; DEVELOPMENTAL STAGE; DNA SEQUENCE; DNA STRAND; DNA TRANSCRIPTION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GENUS; HETEROCHROMATIN; LARVA; NONHUMAN; PALORUS RATZEBURGII; PALORUS SUBDEPRESSUS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PUPA (LIFE CYCLE STAGE); REGULATORY MECHANISM; RNA INTERFERENCE; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION SITE; ANIMAL; GENETICS; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE;

COLEOPTERA; PALORUS; PALORUS RATZEBURGII; PALORUS SUBDEPRESSUS; TENEBRIONIDAE;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; BEETLES; CHROMOSOMES; DNA, SATELLITE; HETEROCHROMATIN; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PROMOTER REGIONS, GENETIC; RNA, SMALL INTERFERING; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

EID: 67849119709     PISSN: 14248581     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000218131     Document Type: Article

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