Intergenic and genic sequence lengths have opposite relationships with respect to gene expression

PLoS ONE

Volumn 3, Issue 11, 2008, Pages

  Colinas, Juliette ^a   Schmidler, Scott C ^a   Bohrer, Gil ^b   Iordanov, Borislav ^c   Benfey, Philip N ^a  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Ohio State University   (United States)

^c NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SPACER DNA; MESSENGER RNA;

ARABIDOPSIS; ARTICLE; CELL TYPE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EPIGENETICS; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOME SIZE; MICROARRAY ANALYSIS; NONHUMAN; PLANT GENETICS; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETIC EPIGENESIS; GENETICS; PLANT GENOME;

ARABIDOPSIS THALIANA; EUKARYOTA;

ARABIDOPSIS; DNA, INTERGENIC; EPIGENESIS, GENETIC; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, PLANT; GENETIC VARIATION; GENOME, PLANT; RNA, MESSENGER;

EID: 56649086553     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0003670     Document Type: Article

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