Balancing up and downregulation of the C. elegans X chromosomes

Current Opinion in Genetics and Development

Volumn 31, Issue , 2015, Pages 50-56

  Lau, Alyssa C ^a   Csankovszki, Györgyi ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DOSAGE COMPENSATION COMPLEX; HISTONE; MULTIPROTEIN COMPLEX; RNA POLYMERASE II; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; HELMINTH DNA;

AUTOSOME; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CHEMICAL PHENOMENA; CHROMATIN COMPACTION; CHROMATIN STRUCTURE; DOWN REGULATION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE REPRESSION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GENOME; HERMAPHRODITE; HISTONE MODIFICATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN FUNCTION; REVIEW; UPREGULATION; X CHROMOSOME; ANIMAL; GENETICS;

CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS;

ANIMALS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; DNA, HELMINTH; DOSAGE COMPENSATION, GENETIC; DOWN-REGULATION; UP-REGULATION; X CHROMOSOME;

EID: 84929660757     PISSN: 0959437X     EISSN: 18790380     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.gde.2015.04.001     Document Type: Review

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