Centromere structures highlighted by the 100%-complete Cyanidioschyzon merolae genome

Plant Signaling and Behavior

Volumn 3, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 140-141

  Maruyama, Shinichiro ^a   Matsuzaki, Motomichi ^a   Kuroiwa, Haruko ^b   Miyagishima, Shin Ya ^c   Tanaka, Kan ^a   Kuroiwa, Tsuneyoshi ^b   Nozaki, Hisayoshi ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b RIKKYO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c Discovery Research Institute   (Japan)

Author keywords

Centromere; Chromosome structure; Complete nuclear genome; Cyanidioschyzon; Repetitive DNA

Indexed keywords

ALGAE; CYANIDIOSCHYZON; CYANIDIOSCHYZON MEROLAE; RHODOPHYTA;

EID: 42249101939     PISSN: 15592316     EISSN: 15592324     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4161/psb.3.2.5066     Document Type: Article

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