The small genome of Arabidopsis contains at least six expressed α-tubulin genes

Plant Cell

Volumn 4, Issue 5, 1992, Pages 539-547

  Kopczak, Steven D ^a   Haas, Nancy A ^a   Hussey, Patrick J ^a,b   Silflow, Carolyn D ^a   Snustad, D Peter ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

TUBULIN;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; EVOLUTION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETIC LINKAGE; GENETICS; GENOME; INTRON; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR GENETICS; MULTIGENE FAMILY; PLANT; POLLEN; RESTRICTION MAPPING; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; EVOLUTION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENOME; INTRONS; LINKAGE (GENETICS); MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MULTIGENE FAMILY; PLANTS; POLLEN; RESTRICTION MAPPING; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SUPPORT, NON-U.S. GOV'T; SUPPORT, U.S. GOV'T, NON-P.H.S.; TUBULIN;

EID: 0026858810     PISSN: 10404651     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1105/tpc.4.5.539     Document Type: Article

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