Organization of the histone H3 genes in soybean, barley and wheat

Molecular and General Genetics

Volumn 250, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 137-147

  Kanazin, Vladimir ^a   Blake, Tom ^b   Shoemaker, Randy C ^a  

^a IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b MONTANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Histone H3; Introns; Multigene families; Nucleotide sequence

Indexed keywords

HISTONE H3;

ARTICLE; BARLEY; DNA POLYMORPHISM; GENETIC ORGANIZATION; INTRON; MOLECULAR CLONING; MULTIGENE FAMILY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PLANT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOYBEAN; WHEAT;

GLYCINE MAX; HORDEUM SPP.; TRITICUM SPP.;

EID: 0030020830     PISSN: 00268925     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF02174172     Document Type: Article

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