Article
A histone variant, H2AvD, is essential in Drosophila melanogaster.
Molecular biology of the cell - 1 Jun 1992
van Daal A, Elgin S C
Abstract excerpt
H2AvD, a Drosophila melanogaster histone variant of the H2A.Z class, is encoded by a single copy gene in the 97CD region of the polytene chromosomes. Northern analysis shows that the transcript is expressed in adult females and is abundant throughout the first 12 h of embryogenesis but then decre...
Topics
- Amino Acid Sequence
- Animals
- Base Sequence
- Chromosome Mapping
- Drosophila melanogaster
- Gene Expression
- Histones
- Molecular Sequence Data
- Mutation