The methylated component of the Neurospora crassa genome

Nature

Volumn 422, Issue 6934, 2003, Pages 893-897

  Selker, Eric U ^a   Tountas, Nikolaos A ^b,c   Cross, Sally H ^b,d   Margolin, Brian S ^a,e   Murphy, Jonathan G ^a   Bird, Adrian P ^b   Freitag, Michael ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OREGON   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA   (United States)

^d WESTERN GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^e UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHROMATOGRAPHY; DNA SEQUENCES; FUNGI;

METHYLATED COMPONENTS;

GENES;

DNA; DNA METHYLTRANSFERASE; RIBOSOME DNA;

FUNGUS; GENOME;

ARTICLE; CPG ISLAND; DNA BINDING; DNA METHYLATION; DNA SEQUENCE; FUNGUS; GENE MUTATION; GENOME; NEUROSPORA CRASSA; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POINT MUTATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

CHROMATOGRAPHY, AFFINITY; CLONING, MOLECULAR; CYTOSINE; DNA METHYLATION; DNA TRANSPOSABLE ELEMENTS; DNA, FUNGAL; GENES, DUPLICATE; GENOME, FUNGAL; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTAGENESIS; NEUROSPORA CRASSA; POINT MUTATION; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, NUCLEIC ACID;

EUKARYOTA; FUNGI; MAMMALIA; MYXOGASTRIA; NEUROSPORA; NEUROSPORA CRASSA; PROKARYOTA; TRANSPOSONS;

EID: 0242416979     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature01564     Document Type: Article

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