Genes and transposons are differentially methylated in plants, but not in mammals

Genome Research

Volumn 13, Issue 12, 2003, Pages 2658-2664

  Rabinowicz, Pablo D ^a   Palmer, Lance E ^a   May, Bruce P ^a   Hemann, Michael T ^a   Lowe, Scott W ^a   McCombie, W Richard ^a   Martienssen, Robert A ^a  

^a Watson School of Biological Sciences   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GENOMIC DNA;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CPG ISLAND; DNA EXTRACTION; DNA HYBRIDIZATION; DNA METHYLATION; DNA VECTOR; EXON; GENE SEQUENCE; MAIZE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; TRANSPOSON;

ANIMALS; DNA METHYLATION; DNA TRANSPOSABLE ELEMENTS; FIBROBLASTS; GENES; GENES, PLANT; GENOME; GENOME, HUMAN; GENOME, PLANT; HUMANS; LUNG; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MICE, TRANSGENIC; SPLEEN; ZEA MAYS;

ANIMALIA; EUKARYOTA; MAMMALIA; TRANSPOSONS; ZEA MAYS;

EID: 0346389569     PISSN: 10889051     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1101/gr.1784803     Document Type: Article

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