What's in a centromere?

Genome Biology

Volumn 5, Issue 9, 2004, Pages

  Lamb, Jonathan C ^a   Theuri, James ^a   Birchler, James A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GENOMIC DNA; REPETITIVE DNA;

ARABIDOPSIS; BACTERIAL ARTIFICIAL CHROMOSOME; CENTROMERE; CHROMATIN STRUCTURE; CHROMOSOME 8; CHROMOSOME SATELLITE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EUKARYOTE; EVOLUTION; FLUORESCENCE IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; GENE SEQUENCE; LONG TERMINAL REPEAT; NONHUMAN; OAT; PLANT GENETICS; RETROPOSON; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SHORT SURVEY; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; TANDEM REPEAT;

ANIMALS; CENTROMERE; HUMANS;

EUKARYOTA;

EID: 5044230360     PISSN: 14656906     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/gb-2004-5-9-239     Document Type: Short Survey

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