RNAi and heterochromatin assembly

Cold Spring Harbor Perspectives in Biology

Volumn 7, Issue 8, 2015, Pages

  Martienssen, Robert ^a   Moazed, Danesh ^b  

^a Howard Hughes Medical Institute Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Cold Spring Harbor   (United States)

^b HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARABIDOPSIS THALIANA; SCHIZOSACCHAROMYCETACEAE;

HETEROCHROMATIN;

ARABIDOPSIS; FUNGAL GENE; GENETICS; HETEROCHROMATIN; METABOLISM; PLANT GENE; RNA INTERFERENCE; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE;

ARABIDOPSIS; GENES, FUNGAL; GENES, PLANT; HETEROCHROMATIN; RNA INTERFERENCE; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE;

EID: 84940033846     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19430264     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1101/cshperspect.a019323     Document Type: Article

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