Epigenetic allelic states of a maize transcriptional regulatory locus exhibit overdominant gene action

Genetics

Volumn 150, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 891-897

  Hollick, Jay B ^a   Chandler, Vicki L ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OREGON   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTHOCYANIN;

ALLELE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOMINANT INHERITANCE; GENE ACTIVITY; GENE LOCUS; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HEMIZYGOSITY; HETEROZYGOTE; HOMOZYGOTE; MAIZE; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

ALLELES; ANTHOCYANINS; CROSSES, GENETIC; GENE DOSAGE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, PLANT; GENES, DOMINANT; GENES, PLANT; GENES, REGULATOR; HETEROZYGOTE; HOMOZYGOTE; ZEA MAYS;

EMBRYOPHYTA; SWIETENIA; ZEA MAYS;

EID: 0031660782     PISSN: 00166731     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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