Pinning down loose ends: Mapping telomeres and factors affecting their length

Plant Cell

Volumn 4, Issue 8, 1992, Pages 953-960

  Burr, Benjamin ^a   Burr, Frances A ^a   Matz, Eileen C ^a   Romero Severson, Jeanne ^b  

^a BROOKHAVEN NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^b Agrigenetics Company ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA;

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; CHROMOSOME MAP; DNA PROBE; MAIZE; MOLECULAR CLONING; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE REPEAT; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH POLYMORPHISM; TELOMERE;

BASE SEQUENCE; CHROMOSOME MAPPING; CLONING, MOLECULAR; DNA; DNA PROBES; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; POLYMORPHISM, RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH; REPETITIVE SEQUENCES, NUCLEIC ACID; SUPPORT, U.S. GOV'T, P.H.S.; TELOMERE; ZEA MAYS;

EID: 0026903855     PISSN: 10404651     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1105/tpc.4.8.953     Document Type: Article

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