Dosage compensation in drosophila

Cold Spring Harbor Perspectives in Biology

Volumn 7, Issue 5, 2015, Pages 1-21

  Lucchesi, John C ^a   Kuroda, Mitzi I ^b  

^a EMORY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; CHROMATIN ASSEMBLY AND DISASSEMBLY; DROSOPHILA; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GENETICS; MALE; X CHROMOSOME;

ANIMALS; CHROMATIN ASSEMBLY AND DISASSEMBLY; DOSAGE COMPENSATION, GENETIC; DROSOPHILA; FEMALE; MALE; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC; X CHROMOSOME;

EID: 84881071491     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19430264     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1101/cshperspect.a019398     Document Type: Article

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