Heritable transposon silencing initiated by a naturally occurring transposon inverted duplication

Nature Genetics

Volumn 37, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 641-644

  Slotkin, R Keith ^a   Freeling, Michael ^a   Lisch, Damon ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DOUBLE STRANDED RNA;

ARTICLE; GENE; GENE DELETION; GENE DUPLICATION; GENE LOCUS; GENE SILENCING; GENOMICS; MAIZE; MOLECULAR CLONING; MUDR GENE; MUK GENE; MULTIGENE FAMILY; MUTATION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TRANSPOSON;

DNA TRANSPOSABLE ELEMENTS; GENE DELETION; GENE DUPLICATION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, PLANT; GENE SILENCING; GENES, PLANT; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; RNA, SMALL INTERFERING; ZEA MAYS;

ZEA MAYS;

EID: 20044378849     PISSN: 10614036     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ng1576     Document Type: Article

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