RFLP and physical mapping with an rDNA-specific endonuclease reveals that nucleolus organizer regions of Arabidopsis thaliana adjoin the telomeres on chromosomes 2 and 4

Plant Journal

Volumn 9, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 259-272

  Copenhaver, Gregory P ^a   Pikaard, Craig S ^a  

^a WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMALIA; ARABIDOPSIS THALIANA; PHYSARUM; ARABIDOPSIS;

DEOXYRIBONUCLEASE; RIBOSOME DNA;

ARABIDOPSIS; ARTICLE; CHROMOSOME MAP; CHROMOSOME NOR; ENZYME SPECIFICITY; GENE REARRANGEMENT; GENETIC LINKAGE; GENETIC MARKER; GENETICS; MEIOSIS; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR CLONING; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH POLYMORPHISM; TELOMERE;

ARABIDOPSIS; BASE SEQUENCE; CHROMOSOME MAPPING; CLONING, MOLECULAR; DNA, RIBOSOMAL; ENDODEOXYRIBONUCLEASES; GENE REARRANGEMENT; GENETIC MARKERS; LINKAGE (GENETICS); MEIOSIS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NUCLEOLUS ORGANIZER REGION; POLYMORPHISM, RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH; SUBSTRATE SPECIFICITY; TELOMERE;

EID: 0030087850     PISSN: 09607412     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-313X.1996.09020259.x     Document Type: Article

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