Maize Mutator transposon

Frontiers of Agriculture in China

Volumn 2, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 396-403

  Wang, Yijun ^a   Xu, Mingliang ^b   Deng, Dexiang ^a   Bian, Yunlong ^a  

^a YANGZHOU UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b CHINA AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Epigenetic modification; Exon shuffling; Genome evolution; Maize; Mutator transposon; Transposon tagging

Indexed keywords

EUKARYOTA; ZEA MAYS;

EID: 57749173839     PISSN: 16737334     EISSN: 1673744X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11703-008-0072-9     Document Type: Article

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