The evolutionary history of histone H3 suggests a deep eukaryotic root of chromatin modifying mechanisms

<p>Abstract</p> <p>Background</p> <p>The phenotype of an organism is an outcome of both its genotype, encoding the primary sequence of proteins, and the developmental orchestration of gene expression. The substrate of gene expression in eukaryotes is the chromatin, whos...

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Main Authors: Postberg Jan, Forcob Sakeh, Chang Wei-Jen, Lipps Hans J
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2010-08-01
Series:BMC Evolutionary Biology
Online Access:http://www.biomedcentral.com/1471-2148/10/259