Length regulation and dynamics of individual telomere tracts in wild-type Arabidopsis

Plant Cell

Volumn 16, Issue 8, 2004, Pages 1959-1967

  Shakirov, Eugene V ^a   Shippen, Dorothy E ^a  

^a TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHROMOSOMES; DNA; ECOSYSTEMS; GENES;

BIMODAL SIZE DISTRIBUTION; TELOMERE TRACTS;

PLANT CELL CULTURE;

CELLS; CHROMOSOMES; ECOSYSTEMS; GENES; TELOMERS;

ANIMALIA; ARABIDOPSIS; ARABIDOPSIS THALIANA; EMBRYOPHYTA;

EID: 4043074969     PISSN: 10404651     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1105/tpc.104.023093     Document Type: Article

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