Sequencing the maize genome

Current Opinion in Plant Biology

Volumn 7, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 102-107

  Martienssen, Robert A ^a   Rabinowicz, Pablo D ^a   O'Shaughnessy, Andrew ^a   McCombie, W Richard ^a  

^a Simons Center for Quantitative Biology   (United States)

Author keywords

BAC; Bacterial artificial chromosome; C0; DNA concentration at time zero; EST; Expressed sequence tag; Methylation filtration; MF; Re association time; t

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL ARTIFICIAL CHROMOSOME; CHROMOSOME MAP; GENETICS; GENOME; MAIZE; METHODOLOGY; REVIEW;

CHROMOSOMES, ARTIFICIAL, BACTERIAL; GENOME, PLANT; PHYSICAL CHROMOSOME MAPPING; ZEA MAYS;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); EMBRYOPHYTA; ZEA MAYS;

EID: 1542381041     PISSN: 13695266     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pbi.2004.01.010     Document Type: Review

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