Transvection is common throughout the Drosophila genome

Genetics

Volumn 191, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 1129-1141

  Mellert, David J ^a   Truman, James W ^a  

^a HOWARD HUGHES MEDICAL INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LEXA PROTEIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR GAL4;

ARTICLE; BINDING SITE; BIOCOMPATIBILITY; CELL TYPE; DROSOPHILA; GENE INSERTION; GENE LOCUS; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENOME ANALYSIS; NEUROBLAST; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN INTERACTION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; TRANSGENE;

ANIMALS; ATTACHMENT SITES, MICROBIOLOGICAL; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; DROSOPHILA; DROSOPHILA PROTEINS; EPISTASIS, GENETIC; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE ORDER; GENOME, INSECT; PROMOTER REGIONS, GENETIC; REGULATORY SEQUENCES, NUCLEIC ACID; TRANSGENES;

EID: 84865073467     PISSN: 00166731     EISSN: 19432631     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1534/genetics.112.140475     Document Type: Article

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