Transcription through intergenic chromosomal memory elements of the Drosophila bithorax complex correlates with an epigenetic switch.

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Published in Mol Cell Biol on November 01, 2002

Authors

Gerhard Rank1, Matthias Prestel, Renato Paro

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1: Center for Molecular Biology Heidelberg, University of Heidelberg, 69120 Heidelberg, Germany.

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