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Rebecca Aucott
Researcher at The Roslin Institute
Publications - 1
Citations - 265
Rebecca Aucott is an academic researcher from The Roslin Institute. The author has contributed to research in topics: Euchromatin & Heterochromatin. The author has an hindex of 1, co-authored 1 publications receiving 261 citations.
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Heterochromatin, HP1 and methylation at lysine 9 of histone H3 in animals.
Ian G. Cowell,Rebecca Aucott,Shantha K. Mahadevaiah,Paul S. Burgoyne,Neville S. Huskisson,Silvia Bongiorni,Giorgio Prantera,Laura Fanti,Sergio Pimpinelli,Rong Wu,David M. Gilbert,Wei Shi,Reinald Fundele,Harris Morrison,Peter Jeppesen,Prim B. Singh +15 more
TL;DR: Methylated lysine 9 of histone H3 (Me9H3) is a marker of heterochromatin in divergent animal species and is enriched in the inactive mammalian X chromosome in female cells, as well as in the XY body during meiosis in the male, and forms a G-band pattern along the arms of the autosomes.