Arabidopsis thaliana Centromere Regions: Genetic Map Positions and Repetitive DNA Structure

Genome Research

Volumn 7, Issue 11, 1997, Pages 1045-1053

  Round, Elaine K ^a,b   Flowers, Susan K ^a   Richards, Eric J ^a  

^a WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PLANT DNA;

ALLELE; ARABIDOPSIS; ARTICLE; CENTROMERE; CHROMOSOME MAP; GENETIC MARKER; GENETIC POLYMORPHISM; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; GENETICS; HUMAN; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; NUCLEOTIDE REPEAT; RESTRICTION MAPPING;

ALLELES; ARABIDOPSIS; CENTROMERE; CHROMOSOME MAPPING; DNA, PLANT; GENETIC MARKERS; HUMANS; POLYMORPHISM, GENETIC; RECOMBINATION, GENETIC; REPETITIVE SEQUENCES, NUCLEIC ACID; RESTRICTION MAPPING;

EID: 0031263162     PISSN: 10889051     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1101/gr.7.11.1045     Document Type: Article

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