Histone Variants in Metazoan Development

Developmental Cell

Volumn 19, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 662-674

  Banaszynski, Laura A ^a   Allis, C David ^a   Lewis, Peter W ^a  

^a ROCKEFELLER UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HISTONE;

CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CHROMATIN STRUCTURE; DNA TEMPLATE; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; EPIGENETICS; GENETIC ALGORITHM; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GERM CELL; HETEROCHROMATIN; METAZOON; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FUNCTION; REVIEW; X CHROMOSOME INACTIVATION;

ANIMALS; CHROMATIN; CHROMOSOME MAPPING; EMBRYONIC DEVELOPMENT; EPIGENESIS, GENETIC; FERTILIZATION; GAMETOGENESIS; HISTONES; OOCYTES; PROTEIN ISOFORMS; X CHROMOSOME INACTIVATION;

MAMMALIA; METAZOA;

EID: 78149492548     PISSN: 15345807     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.devcel.2010.10.014     Document Type: Review

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