Molecular organization of heterochromatin in malaria mosquitoes of the Anopheles maculipennis subgroup

Gene

Volumn 448, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 192-197

  Grushko, Olga G ^a,b   Sharakhova, Maria V ^c   Stegnii, Vladimir N ^a   Sharakhov, Igor V ^c  

^a TOMSK STATE UNIVERSITY   (Russian Federation)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^c Fralin Life Science Institute   (United States)

Author keywords

Anopheles maculipennis subgroup; DNA turnover; Heterochromatic genes; Malaria mosquito evolution; Pericentric heterochromatin; Polytene chromosomes; Repetitive DNA; Transposable elements

Indexed keywords

ANOPHELES; ANOPHELES MACULIPENNIS; ARTICLE; CHROMOSOME STRUCTURE; DINUCLEOTIDE REPEAT; GENE LOCATION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC CONSERVATION; HETEROCHROMATIN; INSECT GENETICS; MALARIA; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; TRANSPOSON;

ANIMALS; ANOPHELES; CONSERVED SEQUENCE; CYTOGENETIC ANALYSIS; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; FEMALE; HETEROCHROMATIN; INSECT VECTORS; MALARIA; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; OPEN READING FRAMES; REPETITIVE SEQUENCES, NUCLEIC ACID;

AEDES AEGYPTI; ANOPHELES GAMBIAE; ANOPHELES MACULIPENNIS; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; MACULIPENNIS SUBGROUP;

EID: 70350238530     PISSN: 03781119     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.gene.2009.07.020     Document Type: Article

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