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Molecular cytogenetic organization of polytene chromosomes

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The results of the works carried out in the Laboratory of Molecular Cytogenetics (Institute of Cytology and Genetics of Siberian Branch of the RAS, Novosibirsk) devoted to the molecular genetic analysis of main units of polytene chromosomes, bands, interbands, and puffs, as well as intercalary and pericentric heterochromatin, are summarized. The results are discussed in terms of the dynamic model of organization of polytene chromosomes.

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    I. F. Zhimulev, E. S. Belyaeva, V. F. Semeshin, G. V. Pokholkova, E. B. Kokoza, T. Yu. Kozlova, S. A. Demakov, N. I. Mal'ceva, O. V. Demakova, M. L. Balasov, D. E. Koryakov, I. V. Makunin & N. V. Belousova

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Translated fromIzvestiya Akademii Nauk. Seriya Khimicheskaya, No. 9, pp. 1622–1638, September, 1995.

The authors are grateful to E. A. Dolbak for help in preparing the manuscript.

This work was financially supported by the State Scientific Technical Program “Frontiers in Genetics” and the Russian Foundation for basic Research (Project No. 95-04-12695).

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Zhimulev, I.F., Belyaeva, E.S., Semeshin, V.F. et al. Molecular cytogenetic organization of polytene chromosomes. Russ Chem Bull 44, 1553–1570 (1995). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01151271

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