A role for siRNA in X-chromosome dosage compensation in Drosophila melanogaster

Genetics

Volumn 191, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 1023-1028

  Menon, Debashish U ^a   Meller, Victoria H ^a  

^a WAYNE STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARGONAUTE 2 PROTEIN; MICRORNA; SMALL INTERFERING RNA;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE MUTATION; GENE OVEREXPRESSION; LETHALITY; MALE; NONHUMAN; NOTE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; RNA INTERFERENCE; X CHROMATIN; X CHROMOSOME; X CHROMOSOME LINKAGE;

ANIMALS; DOSAGE COMPENSATION, GENETIC; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; DROSOPHILA PROTEINS; FEMALE; GENE KNOCKDOWN TECHNIQUES; MALE; MUTATION; RNA, SMALL INTERFERING; RNA-BINDING PROTEINS; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; X CHROMOSOME;

DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER;

EID: 84863876504     PISSN: 00166731     EISSN: 19432631     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1534/genetics.112.140236     Document Type: Note

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