Epigenetic control of germline development

Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology

Volumn 757, Issue , 2013, Pages 373-403

  Van Wynsberghe, Priscilla M ^a,b   Maine, Eleanor M ^a  

^a SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Assistant Professor in the University Libraries   (United States)

Author keywords

C. elegans; Chromatin; Epigenetic; Germ line; Histone; Meiotic silencing; MES complex; PiRNA; SiRNA; Small RNA

Indexed keywords

CELL PROTEIN; HISTONE H3; MIXED LINEAGE LEUKEMIA PROTEIN; PIWI INTERACTING RNA; PROTEIN MES 4; SMALL INTERFERING RNA; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; CELL MATURATION; CELL VIABILITY; CHROMATIN; CHROMOSOME INACTIVATION; DROSOPHILA; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; EPIGENETICS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE SILENCING; GENETIC REGULATION; GERM LINE; HISTONE ACETYLATION; HISTONE METHYLATION; MEIOSIS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; RNA INTERFERENCE; RNA PROCESSING; RNA SYNTHESIS; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION; TRANSPOSON; X CHROMOSOME;

EID: 84867519665     PISSN: 00652598     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4614-4015-4_13     Document Type: Article

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