Shotgun bisulphite sequencing of the Arabidopsis genome reveals DNA methylation patterning

Nature

Volumn 452, Issue 7184, 2008, Pages 215-219

  Cokus, Shawn J ^a   Feng, Suhua ^a   Zhang, Xiaoyu ^a,d   Chen, Zugen ^a   Merriman, Barry ^a   Haudenschild, Christian D ^b   Pradhan, Sriharsa ^c   Nelson, Stanley F ^a   Pellegrini, Matteo ^a   Jacobsen, Steven E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b ILLUMINA INC   (United States)

^c NEW ENGLAND BIOLABS   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BISULFITE;

DNA; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENOME; HERB; METHYLATION; NUMERICAL METHOD; SALT;

ARABIDOPSIS; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA METHYLATION; DNA SEQUENCE; GENE MUTATION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENOME; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ARABIDOPSIS; ARABIDOPSIS THALIANA;

EID: 40749109894     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature06745     Document Type: Article

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