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Mechanisms for the control of gene activity during development

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(4) Somatic cells of Drosophila (5) Imprinting and germ line transmission (6) Maize transposable elements (7) Modification of integrated DNA in fungi (8) Cancer and ageing (9) Conclusions
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(4) Somatic cells of Drosophila (5) Imprinting and germ line transmission (6) Maize transposable elements . . . . . . . . . . . (7) Modification of integrated DNA in fungi (8) Cancer and ageing . . . . . . . . . . . . . V . Conclusions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ( I ) General significance of DNA methylation (2) Major components of development . . . . . . . . . . VI . Acknowledgements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

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The Chemical Basis of Morphogenesis

TL;DR: A possible mechanism by which the genes of a zygote may determine the anatomical structure of the resulting organism is discussed, suggesting that certain well-known physical laws are sufficient to account for many of the facts.
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Somatic generation of antibody diversity

TL;DR: In the genome of a germ-line cell, the genetic information for an immunoglobulin polypeptide chain is contained in multiple gene segments scattered along a chromosome which are assembled by recombination which leads to the formation of a complete gene.
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CpG-rich islands and the function of DNA methylation

Adrian Bird
- 01 May 1986 - 
TL;DR: It is likely that most vertebrate genes are associated with ‘HTF islands’—DNA sequences in which CpG is abundant and non-methylated; however, highly tissue-specific genes, though, usually lack islands.
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