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Volume 11 Issue 11, November 2004

Immunofluorescence staining of extended chromatin fibers (colored lines) and metaphase chromosomes (center) indicate that histone modification in human and fly centromeric chromatin (red regions) is distinct from that of both euchromatin and the flanking heterochromatin. pp 1076-1083.

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