Germ line imprinting in Drosophila: Epigenetics in search of function

Fly

Volumn 4, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 48-52

  Menon, Debashish U ^a   Meller, Victoria H ^a  

^a WAYNE STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Dosage compensation; Drosophila; Epigenetics; Imprinting; Position effect variegation; roX1 roX2

Indexed keywords

HEXAPODA; MAMMALIA;

EID: 77952592912     PISSN: 19336934     EISSN: 19336942     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4161/fly.4.1.10881     Document Type: Article

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