Evidence for nucleolus organizer regions as the units of regulation in nucleolar dominance in Arabidopsis thaliana interecotype hybrids

Genetics

Volumn 167, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 931-939

  Lewis, Michelle S ^a   Cheverud, James M ^a   Pikaard, Craig S ^a,b  

^a WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RIBOSOME RNA;

ARABIDOPSIS; ARTICLE; CHROMOSOME NOR; ECOTYPE; EPIGENETICS; EPISTASIS; GENE CLUSTER; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE MAPPING; GENE SEGREGATION; GENE SILENCING; GENOTYPE; HYBRID; INBREEDING; INHERITANCE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOLAR DOMINANCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT LOCUS; STOCHASTIC MODEL;

ARABIDOPSIS; CELL NUCLEOLUS; GENOTYPE; NUCLEIC ACID HYBRIDIZATION; NUCLEOLUS ORGANIZER REGION; PHENOTYPE; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT LOCI; RECOMBINATION, GENETIC; RNA, PLANT; RNA, RIBOSOMAL;

ARABIDOPSIS; ARABIDOPSIS THALIANA; EMBRYOPHYTA;

EID: 3142761572     PISSN: 00166731     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1534/genetics.103.026203     Document Type: Article

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