Sex-specific methylation in Drosophila: An investigation of the Sophophora subgenus

Genetica

Volumn 138, Issue 8, 2010, Pages 907-913

  D'Ávila, Marícia Fantinel ^a   Garcia, Rosane Nunes ^a   Panzera, Yanina ^b   Valente, Vera Lúcia da Silva ^a  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF RIO GRANDE DO SUL   (Brazil)

^b UNIVERSIDAD DE LA REPÚBLICA   (Uruguay)

Author keywords

DNA methylation; Drosophila; Epigenetics; rDNA; Sophophora subgenus

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CLASSIFICATION; DNA METHYLATION; DROSOPHILA; FEMALE; GENETICS; GENOME; MALE; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; PHYLOGENY; PHYSIOLOGY; SEXUAL DEVELOPMENT; SPECIES DIFFERENCE;

ANIMALS; DNA METHYLATION; DROSOPHILA; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; FEMALE; GENOME, INSECT; MALE; PHYLOGENY; SEX CHARACTERISTICS; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

DROSOPHILA INSULARIS; DROSOPHILA TROPICALIS; DROSOPHILA WILLISTONI; INVERTEBRATA; MELANOGASTER; OBSCURA GROUP; SOPHOPHORA; VERTEBRATA; WILLISTONI SUBGROUP;

EID: 77956281446     PISSN: 00166707     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10709-010-9473-9     Document Type: Article

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