Two-dimensional RFLP analyses reveal megabase-sized clusters of rRNA gene variants in Arabidopsis thaliana, suggesting local spreading of variants as the mode for gene homogenization during concerted evolution

Plant Journal

Volumn 9, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 273-282

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

^a WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARABIDOPSIS; ARABIDOPSIS THALIANA; EUKARYOTA;

PLANT DNA; RIBOSOME DNA;

ARABIDOPSIS; ARTICLE; CHROMOSOME NOR; COMPARATIVE STUDY; GENE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENETICS; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MULTIGENE FAMILY; NUCLEOTIDE REPEAT; PULSED FIELD GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH POLYMORPHISM; RESTRICTION MAPPING; SOUTHERN BLOTTING; TWO DIMENSIONAL GEL ELECTROPHORESIS;

ARABIDOPSIS; BLOTTING, SOUTHERN; DNA, PLANT; DNA, RIBOSOMAL; ELECTROPHORESIS, GEL, PULSED-FIELD; ELECTROPHORESIS, GEL, TWO-DIMENSIONAL; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENES, PLANT; MULTIGENE FAMILY; NUCLEOLUS ORGANIZER REGION; POLYMORPHISM, RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH; REPETITIVE SEQUENCES, NUCLEIC ACID; RESTRICTION MAPPING; VARIATION (GENETICS);

EID: 0030087851     PISSN: 09607412     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-313X.1996.09020273.x     Document Type: Article

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