Chromosome-wide gene silencing initiates y degeneration in drosophila

Current Biology

Volumn 22, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 522-525

  Zhou, Qi ^a   Bachtrog, Doris ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; DROSOPHILA; GENE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE SILENCING; GENETICS; INSECT CHROMOSOME; MALE; MISSENSE MUTATION; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; STOP CODON; Y CHROMOSOME;

ANIMALS; CHROMOSOMES, INSECT; CODON, NONSENSE; DROSOPHILA; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE SILENCING; GENES, INSECT; MALE; MUTATION, MISSENSE; Y CHROMOSOME;

DROSOPHILA ALBOMICANS;

EID: 84858700100     PISSN: 09609822     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2012.01.057     Document Type: Article

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