Uncoupling of genomic and epigenetic signals in the maintenance and inheritance of heterochromatin domains in fission yeast

Genetics

Volumn 190, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 549-557

  Wheeler, Bayly S ^a,b   Ruderman, Brandon T ^a   Willard, Huntington F ^a   Scott, Kristin C ^a  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CELL DIVISION; EPIGENETICS; GENE CONTROL; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE SILENCING; GENOMICS; HETEROCHROMATIN; INHERITANCE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; YEAST;

CELL DIVISION; EPIGENESIS, GENETIC; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, FUNGAL; GENE ORDER; GENE SILENCING; GENETIC LOCI; GENOME, FUNGAL; GENOMICS; HETEROCHROMATIN; MEIOSIS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; SCHIZOSACCHAROMYCES; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

EID: 84857423445     PISSN: 00166731     EISSN: 19432631     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1534/genetics.111.137083     Document Type: Article

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