Lerach, S., Zhang, W., Bao, X., Deng, H., Girton, J., Johansen, J., Johansen, K.M. (2006). Loss-of-function alleles of the JIL-1 kinase are strong suppressors of position effect variegation of the wm4 allele in Drosophila.  Genetics 173(4): 2403--2406.

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Research paper

In this article we show that hypomorphic loss-of-function alleles of the JIL-1 histone H3S10 kinase are strong suppressors of position effect variegation (PEV) of the wm4 allele and that lack of JIL-1 activity can counteract the effect of the dominant enhancer Evar2-1 on PEV.

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