Maize centromeres: Structure, function, epigenetics

Annual Review of Genetics

Volumn 43, Issue , 2009, Pages 287-303

  Birchler, James A ^a   Han, Fangpu ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI   (United States)

Author keywords

Artificial chromosomes; B chromosome; Centromere inactivation; Centromere reactivation; Kinetochore

Indexed keywords

NUCLEAR PROTEIN; PLANT DNA;

ARTIFICIAL CHROMOSOME; AUTOSOME; CENTROMERE; EPIGENETICS; MAIZE; NONDISJUNCTION; NONHUMAN; PLANT CHROMOSOME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FUNCTION; RETROPOSON; REVIEW; SUPERNUMERARY CHROMOSOME; GENETIC EPIGENESIS; GENETICS; METABOLISM;

ZEA MAYS;

CENTROMERE; CHROMOSOMES, PLANT; EPIGENESIS, GENETIC; ZEA MAYS;

EID: 73349142359     PISSN: 00664197     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev-genet-102108-134834     Document Type: Review

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