Telomeres and centromeres in plants

Current Genomics

Volumn 3, Issue 6, 2002, Pages 527-538

  Murata, M ^a  

^a OKAYAMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BINDING PROTEIN; CHROMOSOME PROTEIN; PLANT DNA; REPETITIVE DNA;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARABIDOPSIS; ARTIFICIAL CHROMOSOME; CENTROMERE; CEREAL; CHROMOSOME SATELLITE; CHROMOSOME STRUCTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA ISOLATION; EUKARYOTE; GARLIC; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENETIC CODE; GENETIC CONSERVATION; HUMAN; MAIZE; MAMMAL; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PLANT GENETICS; RETROPOSON; REVIEW; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; TELOMERE;

ALLIUM; ALLIUM SATIVUM; ARABIDOPSIS; ARABIDOPSIS THALIANA; EMBRYOPHYTA; EUKARYOTA; MAMMALIA; ZEA MAYS;

EID: 0036889234     PISSN: 13892029     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2174/1389202023350228     Document Type: Review

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