In plants, highly expressed genes are the least compact

Trends in Genetics

Volumn 22, Issue 10, 2006, Pages 528-532

  Ren, Xin Ying ^a   Vorst, Oscar ^a   Fiers, Mark W E J ^a   Stiekema, Willem J ^b   Nap, Jan Peter ^a,b  

^a WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b CENTRE FOR BIOSYSTEMS GENOMICS   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARABIDOPSIS; CHROMATIN; EXON; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE STRUCTURE; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; INTRON; NONHUMAN; PLANT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SHORT SURVEY; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

ANIMALS; ARABIDOPSIS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, PLANT; GENES, PLANT; GENOME, PLANT; HUMANS; INTRONS; ORYZA SATIVA;

ANIMALIA; ARABIDOPSIS; DICOTYLEDONEAE;

EID: 33748552670     PISSN: 01689525     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tig.2006.08.008     Document Type: Short Survey

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