Identical functional organization of nonpolytene and polytene chromosomes in Drosophila melanogaster.

Salivary gland polytene chromosomes demonstrate banding pattern, genetic meaning of which is an enigma for decades. Till now it is not known how to mark the band/interband borders on physical map of DNA and structures of polytene chromosomes are not characterized in molecular and genetic terms. It i...

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Main Authors: Tatyana Yu Vatolina, Lidiya V Boldyreva, Olga V Demakova, Sergey A Demakov, Elena B Kokoza, Valeriy F Semeshin, Vladimir N Babenko, Fedor P Goncharov, Elena S Belyaeva, Igor F Zhimulev
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2011-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3191165?pdf=render