Sequencing of a rice centromere uncovers active genes

Nature Genetics

Volumn 36, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 138-145

  Nagaki, Kiyotaka ^a   Cheng, Zhukuan ^a,b   Ouyang, Shu ^c   Talbert, Paul B ^d   Kim, Mary ^c   Jones, Kristine M ^c   Henikoff, Steven ^d   Buell, C Robin ^c   Jiang, Jiming ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^b INSTITUTE OF GENETICS AND DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY   (China)

^c J CRAIG VENTER INSTITUTE   (United States)

^d HOWARD HUGHES MEDICAL INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HISTONE H3; LYSINE; SATELLITE DNA;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; BINDING SITE; CENTROMERE; CHROMOSOME 8; EUKARYOTE; GENE LOCATION; GENE MAPPING; GENE SEQUENCE; GENOME ANALYSIS; HETEROCHROMATIN; IMMUNOPRECIPITATION; MOLECULAR CLONING; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN METHYLATION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; RETROPOSON; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RICE; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS;

CENTROMERE; CHROMOSOMES, ARTIFICIAL, BACTERIAL; DNA, SATELLITE; GENES; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; OPEN READING FRAMES; ORYZA SATIVA; RETROELEMENTS;

EMBRYOPHYTA; EUKARYOTA;

EID: 0842289255     PISSN: 10614036     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ng1289     Document Type: Article

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