Term Information

Accession
GO:0005723
Name
alpha-heterochromatin
Ontology
cellular_component
Synonyms
None
Alternate IDs
None
Definition
A small, compact region of heterochromatin located in the middle of the polytene chromosome chromocenter, which undergoes little or no replication during polytenization. Source: PMID:8878678
Comment
None
History
See term history for GO:0005723 at QuickGO
Subset
None
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Parents of alpha-heterochromatin (GO:0005723)
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alpha-heterochromatin [BFO:0000050 relation] BFO:0000050  polytene chromosome chromocenter (GO:0005701)
alpha-heterochromatin [is_a relation] is_a  pericentric heterochromatin (GO:0005721)

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