Epigenetic natural variation in Arabidopsis thaliana

PLoS Biology

Volumn 5, Issue 7, 2007, Pages 1617-1629

  Vaughn, Matthew W ^a   Tanurdžić, Miloš ^a   Lippman, Zachary ^a,d   Jiang, Hongmei ^b,e   Carrasquillo, Robert ^a,f   Rabinowicz, Pablo D ^a,g   Dedhia, Neilay ^a   McCombie, W Richard ^a   Agier, Nicolas ^c   Bulski, Agnès ^c   Colot, Vincent ^c   Doerge, R W ^b   Martienssen, Robert A ^a  

^a Howard Hughes Medical Institute Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Cold Spring Harbor   (United States)

^b PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITÉ D EVRY VAL D ESSONNE   (France)

^d HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

^e NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^f HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^g J CRAIG VENTER INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PLANT DNA; PLANT RNA; SMALL INTERFERING RNA;

ARABIDOPSIS; ARTICLE; CHROMOSOME 4; COMPARATIVE GENOMIC HYBRIDIZATION; DNA METHYLATION; DNA MICROARRAY; EPIGENETICS; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC EPIGENESIS; GENETIC POLYMORPHISM; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENETICS; METABOLISM; NONHUMAN; PLANT CHROMOSOME; PLANT GENE; RETROPOSON; TRANSPOSON;

ARABIDOPSIS; CHROMOSOMES, PLANT; COMPARATIVE GENOMIC HYBRIDIZATION; DNA METHYLATION; DNA TRANSPOSABLE ELEMENTS; DNA, PLANT; EPIGENESIS, GENETIC; GENES, PLANT; GENETIC VARIATION; GENETICS; METABOLISM; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE ARRAY SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; POLYMORPHISM, GENETIC; RNA, PLANT; RNA, SMALL INTERFERING;

ARABIDOPSIS; ARABIDOPSIS THALIANA;

EID: 34347327677     PISSN: 15449173     EISSN: 15457885     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0050174     Document Type: Article

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