The Drosophila homolog of the mammalian imprint regulator, CTCF, maintains the maternal genomic imprint in Drosophila melanogaster

BMC Biology

Volumn 8, Issue , 2010, Pages

  MacDonald, William A ^a   Menon, Debashish ^b   Bartlett, Nicholas J ^c   Sperry, G Elizabeth ^c   Rasheva, Vanya ^b,d   Meller, Victoria ^b   Lloyd, Vett K ^c  

^a DALHOUSIE UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b WAYNE STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c MOUNT ALLISON UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^d INSTITUTO DE TECNOLOGIA QUÍMICA E BIOLÓGICA   (Portugal)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; MAMMALIA;

CTCF PROTEIN, DROSOPHILA; DROSOPHILA PROTEIN; REPRESSOR PROTEIN;

ALLELE; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; GENOME IMPRINTING; X CHROMOSOME;

ALLELES; ANIMALS; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; DROSOPHILA PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENOMIC IMPRINTING; REPRESSOR PROTEINS; X CHROMOSOME;

EID: 77955063036     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17417007     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1741-7007-8-105     Document Type: Article

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