Position-effect variegation, heterochromatin formation, and gene silencing in Drosophila

Cold Spring Harbor Perspectives in Biology

Volumn 5, Issue 8, 2013, Pages

  Elgin, Sarah C R ^a   Reuter, Gunter ^b  

^a WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b MARTIN LUTHER UNIVERSITY HALLE WITTENBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABC TRANSPORTER; DROSOPHILA PROTEIN; EYE PROTEIN; WHITE PROTEIN, DROSOPHILA; HETEROCHROMATIN;

ANIMAL; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; DROSOPHILA; GENE REARRANGEMENT; GENE SILENCING; GENETICS; HETEROCHROMATIN; MUTATION; PHYSIOLOGY; POSITION EFFECT VARIEGATION; REVIEW;

ANIMALS; ATP-BINDING CASSETTE TRANSPORTERS; CHROMOSOMAL POSITION EFFECTS; DROSOPHILA; DROSOPHILA PROTEINS; EYE PROTEINS; GENE REARRANGEMENT; GENE SILENCING; HETEROCHROMATIN; MODELS, GENETIC; MUTATION;

EID: 84881049715     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19430264     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1101/cshperspect.a017780     Document Type: Article

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