The small genome of Arabidopsis contains at least nine expressed β-tubulin genes

Plant Cell

Volumn 4, Issue 5, 1992, Pages 549-556

  Snustad, D Peter ^a   Haas, Nancy A ^a   Kopczak, Steven D ^a   Silflow, Carolyn D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

TUBULIN;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; EVOLUTION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; GENOME; INTRON; MOLECULAR CLONING; MOLECULAR GENETICS; MULTIGENE FAMILY; PLANT; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; CLONING, MOLECULAR; EVOLUTION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENOME; INTRONS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MULTIGENE FAMILY; PLANTS; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SUPPORT, U.S. GOV'T, NON-P.H.S.; TUBULIN;

EID: 0026860199     PISSN: 10404651     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1105/tpc.4.5.549     Document Type: Article

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