The Ty1-copia group retrotransposons of Allium cepa are distributed throughout the chromosomes but are enriched in the terminal heterochromatin

Chromosome Research

Volumn 4, Issue 5, 1996, Pages 357-364

  Pearce, Stephen R ^a,b   Pich, Uta ^c   Harrison, Gill ^d   Flavell, Andrew J ^b   Heslop Harrison, J S ^d   Schubert, Ingo ^c   Kumar, Amar ^a  

^a SCOTTISH CROP RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF DUNDEE   (United Kingdom)

^c LEIBNIZ INSTITUTE OF PLANT GENETICS AND CROP PLANT RESEARCH IPK   (Germany)

^d JOHN INNES CENTRE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Heterochromatin; Onion; Plants; Retrotransposons; Ty1 copia

Indexed keywords

RNA DIRECTED DNA POLYMERASE;

ARTICLE; CHROMOSOME; GENOME; HETEROCHROMATIN; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; METAPHASE CHROMOSOME; PLANT; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROPOSON; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS;

ALLIUM CEPA;

EID: 0029742464     PISSN: 09673849     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF02257271     Document Type: Article

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