AmiGO 2: Term Details for "alpha-heterochromatin" (GO:0005723)

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
Chem. react.: None
Subset: None
Related: Link to all genes and gene products annotated to alpha-heterochromatin (excluding "regulates").; Link to all direct and indirect annotations to alpha-heterochromatin (excluding "regulates").; Link to all direct and indirect annotations download (limited to first 10,000) for alpha-heterochromatin (excluding "regulates").

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subject	relation	object
alpha-heterochromatin	is_a	pericentric heterochromatin (GO:0005721)
alpha-heterochromatin	BFO:0000050	polytene chromosome chromocenter (GO:0005701)

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