The mop1 (mediator of paramutation1) mutant progressively reactivates one of the two genes encoded by the MuDR transposon in maize

Genetics

Volumn 172, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 579-592

  Woodhouse, Margaret Roth ^a   Freeling, Michael ^a   Lisch, Damon ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALLELE; ARTICLE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE MUTATION; GENE SILENCING; GENETIC CODE; GENOMICS; HETEROZYGOSITY; MAIZE; METHYLATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOMATIC CELL; TRANSPOSON;

CROSSES, GENETIC; DNA METHYLATION; DNA TRANSPOSABLE ELEMENTS; DNA, PLANT; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, PLANT; GENE SILENCING; HETEROZYGOTE; MUTATION; PLANT PROTEINS; PLANTS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; TERMINAL REPEAT SEQUENCES; TRANSPOSASES; ZEA MAYS;

ZEA MAYS;

EID: 33644769152     PISSN: 00166731     EISSN: 00166731     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1534/genetics.105.051383     Document Type: Article

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