Maintenance of genomic imprinting at the Arabidopsis medea locus requires zygotic DDM1 activity

Genes and Development

Volumn 13, Issue 22, 1999, Pages 2971-2982

  Vielle Calzada, Jean Philippe ^a   Thomas, Julie ^a   Spillane, Charles ^a,b   Coluccio, Alison ^a   Hoeppner, Marilu A ^a   Grossniklaus, Ueli ^a,b  

^a Howard Hughes Medical Institute Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Cold Spring Harbor   (United States)

^b FRIEDRICH MIESCHER INSTITUTE FOR BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Arabidopsis; DDM1; Embryo; Endosperm; Genomic imprinting; MEDEA

Indexed keywords

ARABIDOPSIS; ARTICLE; CHROMATIN STRUCTURE; EMBRYO; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE MUTATION; GENOME IMPRINTING; NONHUMAN; PLANT SEED; PRIORITY JOURNAL; ZYGOTE;

ALLELES; ARABIDOPSIS; ARABIDOPSIS PROTEINS; CHROMATIN; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, PLANT; GENES, PLANT; GENOMIC IMPRINTING; PLANT PROTEINS; SEEDS; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC; ZYGOTE;

EID: 0032707566     PISSN: 08909369     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1101/gad.13.22.2971     Document Type: Article

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