Telomere dynamics and fusion of critically shortened telomeres in plants lacking DNA ligase IV

Nucleic Acids Research

Volumn 35, Issue 19, 2007, Pages 6490-6500

  Heacock, Michelle L ^a   Idol, Rachel A ^a   Friesner, Joanna D ^b   Britt, Anne B ^b   Shippen, Dorothy E ^a  

^a TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PLANT DNA; POLYDEOXYRIBONUCLEOTIDE SYNTHASE; POLYDEOXYRIBONUCLEOTIDE SYNTHASE IV; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANAPHASE; ARABIDOPSIS; ARTICLE; CHROMOSOME ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA HYBRIDIZATION; DNA REPAIR; FREQUENCY ANALYSIS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PLANT CHROMOSOME; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; TELOMERE;

ARABIDOPSIS; ARABIDOPSIS PROTEINS; CHROMOSOMES, PLANT; DNA LIGASES; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; MUTATION; PHENOTYPE; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; TELOMERE;

ARABIDOPSIS;

EID: 36148931815     PISSN: 03051048     EISSN: 13624962     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkm472     Document Type: Article

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