How do Alliaceae stabilize their chromosome ends in the absence of TTTAGGG sequences?

Chromosome Research

Volumn 4, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 207-213

  Pich, Uta ^a   Fuchs, Jörg ^a   Schubert, Ingo ^a  

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

Author keywords

Alliaceae; rDNA; Satellite DNA; Telomeric sequences

Indexed keywords

ARABIDOPSIS; ARTICLE; CHROMOSOME; CHROMOSOME REPLICATION; HIGHER PLANT; MOLECULAR STABILITY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TANDEM REPEAT; TELOMERE;

ALLIUM; ARABIDOPSIS; BASE SEQUENCE; CHROMOSOMES; DNA, PLANT; DNA, RIBOSOMAL; DNA, SATELLITE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NUCLEOLUS ORGANIZER REGION; PLANTS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RECOMBINATION, GENETIC; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; TELOMERE;

EID: 0029893390     PISSN: 09673849     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF02254961     Document Type: Article

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