Amplicons of maize zein genes are conserved within genic but expanded and constricted in intergenic regions

Plant Journal

Volumn 15, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 211-220

  Llaca, Victor ^a   Messing, Joachim ^b  

^a RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMPLICON; ARABIDOPSIS; BASE PAIRING; CDNA LIBRARY; GENE CONVERSION; INTERGENIC REGION; MAIZE; OPEN READING FRAME; PLANT GENETICS; PLANT GENOME; PLANT GROWTH;

ARABIDOPSIS; BASE COMPOSITION; BASE SEQUENCE; CHROMOSOME MAPPING; CONSERVED SEQUENCE; COSMIDS; GENE LIBRARY; INTRONS; OPEN READING FRAMES; ORYZA SATIVA; REPETITIVE SEQUENCES, NUCLEIC ACID; RESTRICTION MAPPING; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, NUCLEIC ACID; ZEA MAYS; ZEIN;

ARABIDOPSIS; ARABIDOPSIS THALIANA; EMBRYOPHYTA; ZEA MAYS;

EID: 0032126220     PISSN: 09607412     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-313X.1998.00200.x     Document Type: Article

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