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SUBMITTER: Khosla S
PROVIDER: S-EPMC148631 | biostudies-other | 1999 Sep
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-other
Khosla S S Augustus M M Brahmachari V V
Nucleic acids research 19990901 18
Differential organisation of homologous chromosomes is related to both sex determination and genomic imprinting in coccid insects, the mealybugs. We report here the identification of two middle repetitive sequences that are differentially organised between the two sexes and also within the same diploid nucleus. These two sequences form a part of the male-specific nuclease-resistant chromatin (NRC) fraction of a mealybug Planococcus lilacinus. To understand the phenomenon of differential organisa ...[more]