Meiotic transmission rates correlate with physical features of rearranged centromeres in maize

Genetics

Volumn 150, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 1683-1692

  Kaszás, Étienne ^a,b   Birchler, James A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PLANT DNA;

ARTICLE; CENTROMERE; CHROMOSOME REARRANGEMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOLOGY; MAIZE; MEIOSIS; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULSED FIELD GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; SOUTHERN BLOTTING;

CENTROMERE; DEOXYRIBONUCLEASES, TYPE II SITE-SPECIFIC; GENE DOSAGE; GENE REARRANGEMENT; GENES, PLANT; MEIOSIS; ZEA MAYS;

EMBRYOPHYTA; ZEA MAYS;

EID: 0031789704     PISSN: 00166731     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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