Using genetic approaches and a filamentous fungus, molecular biologists have found further evidence of an intimate relationship between genomes and the histone proteins that evolved to package them.
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Rice, J., Allis, C. Code of silence. Nature 414, 259–261 (2001). https://doi.org/10.1038/35104721
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