High rates of polymorphism and recombination at the Opaque-2 locus in cultivated maize

Molecular and General Genetics

Volumn 256, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 147-157

  Henry, A M ^a   Damerval, C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ PARIS SUD   (France)

Author keywords

DNA sequencing; Maize; Molecular polymorphism; Opaque 2; Transcription factor

Indexed keywords

TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; ARTICLE; CODON USAGE; DNA POLYMORPHISM; DNA RECOMBINATION; EVOLUTION; EXON; GENE DELETION; GENE INSERTION; GENE LINKAGE DISEQUILIBRIUM; GENE LOCUS; INBRED STRAIN; INTRON; MAIZE; MUTATION RATE; NONHUMAN; OPEN READING FRAME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DOMAIN;

BASE SEQUENCE; CHROMOSOME MAPPING; DNA, PLANT; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; EVOLUTION; EXONS; GENES, PLANT; INTRONS; LINKAGE (GENETICS); MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTAGENESIS, INSERTIONAL; PLANT PROTEINS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; POLYMORPHISM, GENETIC; RECOMBINATION, GENETIC; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SEQUENCE DELETION; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, NUCLEIC ACID; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; ZEA MAYS;

EID: 0030693772     PISSN: 00268925     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s004380050556     Document Type: Article

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