Paramutation alters regulatory control of the maize pl locus

Genetics

Volumn 154, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 1827-1838

  Hollick, Jay B ^a,c   Patterson, Garth I ^a,d   Asmundsson, Ingrid M ^a,e   Chandler, Vicki L ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OREGON   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA; RNA; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

ALLELE; ARTICLE; DNA SEQUENCE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GENOTYPE; MAIZE; NONHUMAN; PLANT; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ALLELES; ANTHOCYANINS; CHROMOSOME MAPPING; CYTOSINE; DNA METHYLATION; LIGHT; MUTATION; RNA, PLANT; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC; ZEA MAYS;

EMBRYOPHYTA; ZEA MAYS;

EID: 0034081024     PISSN: 00166731     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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