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Polytene Chromosomes
Known as:
Chromosome, Polytene
, Chromosomes, Polytene
, Polytene Chromosome
A type of chromosome in a polyploid cell, formed when multiple copies of homologous chromosomes are aligned side by side to give a giant chromosome…
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Endoreduplication
Microbiological
Polyploidy
Process of secretion
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Polytene chromosome weak point location
polytene chromosome band
polytene chromosome chromocenter
polytene chromosome interband
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Highly Cited
2004
Highly Cited
2004
Native E2F/RBF Complexes Contain Myb-Interacting Proteins and Repress Transcription of Developmentally Controlled E2F Target Genes
M. Korenjak
,
Barbie Taylor-Harding
,
+6 authors
A. Brehm
Cell
2004
Corpus ID: 17989678
Highly Cited
2002
Highly Cited
2002
Drosophila Enhancer of Zeste/ESC Complexes Have a Histone H3 Methyltransferase Activity that Marks Chromosomal Polycomb Sites
B. Czermin
,
R. Melfi
,
D. Mccabe
,
Volker Seitz
,
A. Imhof
,
V. Pirrotta
Cell
2002
Corpus ID: 17868014
Highly Cited
2002
Highly Cited
2002
A Polytene Chromosome Analysis of the Anopheles gambiae Species Complex
M. Coluzzi
,
A. Sabatini
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A. della Torre
,
M. D. Di Deco
,
V. Petrarca
Science
2002
Corpus ID: 32282178
Field-collected specimens of all known taxa in the Anopheles gambiae complex were analyzed on the basis of chromosome inversions…
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Highly Cited
2002
Highly Cited
2002
PR-Set7 is a nucleosome-specific methyltransferase that modifies lysine 20 of histone H4 and is associated with silent chromatin.
K. Nishioka
,
J. Rice
,
+10 authors
D. Reinberg
Molecules and Cells
2002
Corpus ID: 39010215
Highly Cited
2000
Highly Cited
2000
The ISWI chromatin-remodeling protein is required for gene expression and the maintenance of higher order chromatin structure in vivo.
R. Deuring
,
L. Fanti
,
+11 authors
J. Tamkun
Molecules and Cells
2000
Corpus ID: 33830271
Review
1996
Review
1996
A review of the use of ribosomal DNA (rDNA) to differentiate among cryptic Anopheles species
F. Collins
,
S. Paskewitz
Insect molecular biology (Print)
1996
Corpus ID: 36425600
Cryptic species complexes are groups of closely related species that are difficult or impossible to distinguish by morphological…
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Highly Cited
1990
Highly Cited
1990
Mutation in a heterochromatin-specific chromosomal protein is associated with suppression of position-effect variegation in Drosophila melanogaster.
J. C. Eissenberg
,
T. James
,
D. Foster‐Hartnett
,
T. Hartnett
,
V. Ngan
,
S. Elgin
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences…
1990
Corpus ID: 7096364
We report here that a point mutation in the gene which encodes the heterochromatin-specific nonhistone chromosomal protein HP-1…
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Highly Cited
1987
Highly Cited
1987
Characterization of a mammalian mutant with a camptothecin-resistant DNA topoisomerase I.
T. Andoh
,
K. Ishii
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+4 authors
K. Okada
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences…
1987
Corpus ID: 22834503
DNA topoisomerase I was purified to near homogeneity from a clonal line of human lymphoblastic leukemia cells, RPMI 8402, that is…
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Highly Cited
1981
Highly Cited
1981
Antibodies to left-handed Z-DNA bind to interband regions of Drosophila polytene chromosomes
A. Nordheim
,
M. Pardue
,
E. Lafer
,
A. Möller
,
B. Stollar
,
A. Rich
Nature
1981
Corpus ID: 4368729
Antibodies which are specific to the Z–DNA conformation have been purified and characterized on the basis of their binding to…
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Highly Cited
1974
Highly Cited
1974
A system for mapping DNA sequences in the chromosomes of Drosophila melanogaster.
P. C. Wensink
,
D. Finnegan
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J. Donelson
,
D. Hogness
Cell
1974
Corpus ID: 45206801
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