DNA methylation patterns of Melandrium album chromosomes

Chromosome Research

Volumn 6, Issue 6, 1998, Pages 441-446

  Siroky, Jiri ^a   Castiglione, Monica Ruffini ^b   Vyskot, Boris ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF BIOPHYSICS   (Czech Republic)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PISA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Confocal laser scanning microscopy; DNA methylation; Dosage compensation; Immunofluorescence labelling; Melandrium album (syn. Silene latifolia); Sex chromosomes

Indexed keywords

5 METHYLCYTOSINE; AZACITIDINE; MONOCLONAL ANTIBODY; PLANT DNA;

ARTICLE; CONFOCAL LASER MICROSCOPY; DNA METHYLATION; EUCHROMATIN; GERMINATION; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE; INTERPHASE; NONHUMAN; PLANT ROOT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DOMAIN; SOMATIC CELL GENETICS; X CHROMOSOME; X CHROMOSOME LINKAGE; Y CHROMOSOME;

AZACITIDINE; CHROMATIN; DNA METHYLATION; FLUORESCENT ANTIBODY TECHNIQUE, INDIRECT; MICROSCOPY, CONFOCAL; PLANTS; X CHROMOSOME; Y CHROMOSOME;

EMBRYOPHYTA; MELANDRIUM; SILENE; SILENE LATIFOLIA SUBSP. ALBA;

EID: 0031798290     PISSN: 09673849     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1009244210622     Document Type: Article

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