Terminal heterochromatin and alternative telomeric sequences in Allium cepa

Chromosome Research

Volumn 6, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 315-321

  Pich, Uta ^a   Schubert, Ingo ^a  

^a LEIBNIZ INSTITUTE OF PLANT GENETICS AND CROP PLANT RESEARCH IPK   (Germany)

Author keywords

Allium cepa; Extended fibre FISH; Sequence organization; Telomeres; Terminal heterochromatin

Indexed keywords

PLANT DNA; SATELLITE DNA;

ARTICLE; DNA SEQUENCE; FLUORESCENCE IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; HETEROCHROMATIN; METAPHASE CHROMOSOME; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; ONION; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TELOMERE; TRANSPOSON;

ALLIUM; BASE SEQUENCE; BLOTTING, SOUTHERN; DNA PROBES; GENOME, PLANT; HETEROCHROMATIN; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION, FLUORESCENCE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; REPETITIVE SEQUENCES, NUCLEIC ACID; RETROELEMENTS; TELOMERE;

EID: 0031850336     PISSN: 09673849     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1009227009121     Document Type: Article

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