Article
Position effect variegation and chromatin proteins.
BioEssays : news and reviews in molecular, cellular and developmental biology - 1 Sept 1992
Reuter G, Spierer P
Abstract excerpt
Variegated phenotypes often result from chromosomal rearrangements that place euchromatic genes next to heterochromatin. In such rearrangements, the condensed structure of heterochromatin can spread into euchromatic regions, which then assume the morphology of heterochromatin and become transcrip...
Topics
- Animals
- Chromosomal Proteins, Non-Histone
- Chromosome Inversion
- Drosophila melanogaster
- Eye Color
- Female
- Gene Expression Regulation
- Genes, Dominant
- Genomic Imprinting
- Heterochromatin
- Male
- Phenotype
