Благодарности
R.C.A. благодарит Alison L. Pidoux и Sharon A White за Рис. 4 и Рис. 3, соответственно; а также Alison L. Pidoux и Elizabeth Н. Bayne за замечания по рукописи. Исследования в лаборатории Allshire поддержаны the Wellcome Trust, MRC, и the EC FP6 Epigenome Network of Excellence. R.CA. является a Wellcome Trust Principal Research Fellow. E.U.S. благодарит N.B. Raju за помошь в подборе рисунков по Neurospora и Robert L. Metzenberg за замечания по рукописи. Исследования в Selker-лаборатории поддерживаются U.S. Public Health Service grant GM35690 от the National Institutes of Health и National Science Foundation grant MCB0131383.
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