Ultrastructural nonisotopic mapping of nucleolar transcription sites in onion protoplasts

Journal of Structural Biology

Volumn 116, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 253-263

  Melčák, Ivo ^a   Risueño, Mari Carmen ^b   Raška, Ivan ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF EXPERIMENTAL MEDICINE   (Czech Republic)

^b CENTRO DE INVESTIGACIONES BIOLÓGICAS   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOLUS; ONION; PLANT CELL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RNA TRANSCRIPTION; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

ALLIUM CEPA;

EID: 17544405115     PISSN: 10478477     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/jsbi.1996.0040     Document Type: Article

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