Comparative Genomic Analyses Provide New Insights into the Evolutionary Dynamics of Heterochromatin in Drosophila.
The term heterochromatin has been long considered synonymous with gene silencing, but it is now clear that the presence of transcribed genes embedded in pericentromeric heterochromatin is a conserved feature in the evolution of eukaryotic genomes. Several studies have addressed the epigenetic change...
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Public Library of Science (PLoS)
2016-08-01
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Series: | PLoS Genetics |
Online Access: | http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC4981424?pdf=render |