"Polytene Chromosomes" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure,
which enables searching at various levels of specificity.
Extra large CHROMOSOMES, each consisting of many identical copies of a chromosome lying next to each other in parallel.
| Descriptor ID |
D059007
|
| MeSH Number(s) |
A11.284.187.440.500 A11.284.430.106.279.345.190.580 G05.360.162.440.500
|
| Concept/Terms |
Polytene Chromosomes- Polytene Chromosomes
- Polytene Chromosome
- Chromosome, Polytene
- Chromosomes, Polytene
|
Below are MeSH descriptors whose meaning is more general than "Polytene Chromosomes".
Below are MeSH descriptors whose meaning is more specific than "Polytene Chromosomes".
This graph shows the total number of publications written about "Polytene Chromosomes" by people in this website by year, and whether "Polytene Chromosomes" was a major or minor topic of these publications.
To see the data from this visualization as text,
click here.
| Year | Major Topic | Minor Topic | Total |
|---|
| 2012 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2015 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
To return to the timeline,
click here.
Below are the most recent publications written about "Polytene Chromosomes" by people in Profiles.
-
Stable Chromosome Condensation Revealed by Chromosome Conformation Capture. Cell. 2015 Nov 05; 163(4):934-46.
-
Drosophila muller f elements maintain a distinct set of genomic properties over 40 million years of evolution. G3 (Bethesda). 2015 Mar 04; 5(5):719-40.
-
A shared role for RBF1 and dCAP-D3 in the regulation of transcription with consequences for innate immunity. PLoS Genet. 2012; 8(4):e1002618.