The mutator transposable element system of maize

Current Topics in Microbiology and Immunology

Volumn 204, Issue , 1996, Pages 195-229

  Bennetzen, J L ^a  

^a PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA TRANSPOSITION; GENETIC REGULATION; MAIZE; MUTATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; TRANSPOSON;

ZEA MAYS;

EID: 0029656020     PISSN: 0070217X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-79795-8_9     Document Type: Review

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