Transition between two forms of heterochromatin at plant subtelomeres

Chromosome Research

Volumn 9, Issue 4, 2001, Pages 309-323

  Sýkorová, Eva ^a   Fajkus, Jiří ^a   Ito, Mikako ^b   Fukui, Kiichi ^b  

^a MASARYK UNIVERSITY   (Czech Republic)

^b OSAKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Chromatin structure; Nucleosome positioning; Plant telomeres and subtelomeres

Indexed keywords

NAKED DNA; NUCLEASE;

ARTICLE; CHROMATIN STRUCTURE; COMPUTER ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA CLEAVAGE; DNA SEQUENCE; FLUORESCENCE IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; GENE SEQUENCE; HETEROCHROMATIN; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOSOME; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PLANT GENETICS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULSED FIELD GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SILENE; TANDEM REPEAT; TELOMERE;

ANGIOSPERMS; BASE SEQUENCE; BLOTTING, SOUTHERN; DNA, PLANT; HETEROCHROMATIN; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION, FLUORESCENCE; MICROCOCCAL NUCLEASE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; NUCLEOSOMES; RESTRICTION MAPPING; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; TANDEM REPEAT SEQUENCES; TELOMERE; TEMPLATES, GENETIC;

SILENE; SILENE LATIFOLIA;

EID: 0035791480     PISSN: 09673849     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1016698713959     Document Type: Article

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