New Properties of Drosophila scs and scs' Insulators

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 4, 2013, Pages

  Kyrchanova, Olga ^a   Leman, Dmitry ^a   Parshikov, Alexander ^a   Fedotova, Anna ^a   Studitsky, Vasily ^b,c   Maksimenko, Oksana ^a   Georgiev, Pavel ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF GENE BIOLOGY   (Russian Federation)

^b MOSCOW STATE UNIVERSITY   (Russian Federation)

^c RUTGERS ROBERT WOOD JOHNSON MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DROSOPHILA PROTEIN; PROTEIN ZW5; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; BINDING SITE; CAD87A GENE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DROSOPHILA; EYE PIGMENTATION; GENE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE FUNCTION; GENE LOCATION; INSULATOR ELEMENT; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PIGMENTATION; POLYADENYLATION; POSITION EFFECT VARIEGATION; PROTEIN BINDING; REPORTER GENE; TRANSGENE;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; DROSOPHILA; DROSOPHILA PROTEINS; ENHANCER ELEMENTS, GENETIC; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE ORDER; GENES, REPORTER; INSULATOR ELEMENTS; MALE; PROMOTER REGIONS, GENETIC; TRANSCRIPTION TERMINATION, GENETIC;

EUKARYOTA;

EID: 84876512646     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0062690     Document Type: Article

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