Epigenetics: More than genetics

Fly

Volumn 2, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 165-168

  Sala, Anna ^a   Corona, Davide F V ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PALERMO   (Italy)

Author keywords

Chromatin; Epigenetics; Histone; Insulator; Remodeler

Indexed keywords

ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATASE; DROSOPHILA PROTEIN; HISTONE; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

ANIMAL; CHROMATIN ASSEMBLY AND DISASSEMBLY; CONFERENCE PAPER; DROSOPHILA; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETIC EPIGENESIS; GENETICS; METABOLISM; PHYSIOLOGY; TRANSPOSON;

ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATASES; ANIMALS; CHROMATIN ASSEMBLY AND DISASSEMBLY; DNA TRANSPOSABLE ELEMENTS; DROSOPHILA; DROSOPHILA PROTEINS; EPIGENESIS, GENETIC; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; HISTONES; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

EID: 84863900860     PISSN: 19336934     EISSN: 19336942     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4161/fly.6400     Document Type: Article

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