Imprinting in the endosperm: A possible role in preventing wide hybridization

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 358, Issue 1434, 2003, Pages 1105-1111

  Gutierrez Marcos, Jose F ^a   Pennington, Paul D ^a   Costa, Liliana M ^a   Dickinson, Hugh G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Endosperm; Epigenetic; Hybridization; Imprinting; Silencing

Indexed keywords

EVOLUTION; GENE FLOW; HYBRIDIZATION; REPRODUCTIVE ISOLATION;

ANIMALIA; MAGNOLIOPHYTA; MAMMALIA;

EID: 0038141780     PISSN: 09628436     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2003.1292     Document Type: Conference Paper

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