Compromised stability of DNA methylation and transposon immobilization in mosaic Arabidopsis epigenomes

Genes and Development

Volumn 23, Issue 8, 2009, Pages 939-950

  Reinders, Jon ^a   Wulff, Brande B H ^b,d   Mirouze, Marie ^a   Marí Ordóñez, Arturo ^b,d   Dapp, Mélanie ^a   Rozhon, Wilfried ^c   Bucher, Etienne ^a   Theiler, Grégory ^a   Paszkowski, Jerzy ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GENEVA   (Switzerland)

^b Ciudad Politécnica de la Innovación   (Spain)

^c UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^d INST DE BIOL MOLEC DES PLANTES   (France)

Author keywords

DNA methylation; Epigenetics; Epigenome maps; Methylation profiling

Indexed keywords

DNA; GENOMIC DNA; ARABIDOPSIS PROTEIN; DNA (CYTOSINE 5) METHYLTRANSFERASE; MET1 PROTEIN, ARABIDOPSIS;

ARABIDOPSIS; ARTICLE; CHROMOSOME; DNA METHYLATION; DNA POLYMORPHISM; EPIGENETICS; GENE MAPPING; GENETIC STABILITY; GENOME; GENOME ANALYSIS; INBREEDING; MOSAICISM; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECOMBINANT INBRED STRAIN; TRANSPOSON; WILD TYPE; CHROMOSOME MAP; GENETIC EPIGENESIS; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; GENETICS; GENOMIC INSTABILITY; METABOLISM; PHENOTYPE; PLANT CHROMOSOME; PLANT GENE; PLANT GENOME;

ARABIDOPSIS;

ARABIDOPSIS; ARABIDOPSIS PROTEINS; CHROMOSOME MAPPING; CHROMOSOMES, PLANT; DNA (CYTOSINE-5-)-METHYLTRANSFERASE; DNA METHYLATION; DNA TRANSPOSABLE ELEMENTS; EPIGENESIS, GENETIC; GENES, PLANT; GENOME, PLANT; GENOMIC INSTABILITY; INBREEDING; MOSAICISM; PHENOTYPE; RECOMBINATION, GENETIC;

EID: 65249186659     PISSN: 08909369     EISSN: 15495477     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1101/gad.524609     Document Type: Article

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