Maize centromere structure and evolution: Sequence analysis of centromeres 2 and 5 reveals dynamic loci shaped primarily by retrotransposons

PLoS Genetics

Volumn 5, Issue 11, 2009, Pages

  Wolfgruber, Thomas K ^a   Sharma, Anupma ^a   Schneider, Kevin L ^a   Albert, Patrice S ^b   Koo, Dal Hoe ^c   Shi, Jinghua ^d   Gao, Zhi ^b   Han, Fangpu ^b   Lee, Hyeran ^c   Xu, Ronghui ^a   Allison, Jamie ^a   Birchler, James A ^b   Jiang, Jiming ^c   Dawe, R Kelly ^d   Presting, Gernot G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^d University of Georgia ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HISTONE ANTIBODY; HISTONE H3; REPETITIVE DNA; PLANT DNA;

ARTICLE; CENTROMERE; CHROMATIN IMMUNOPRECIPITATION; CHROMOSOME INSERTION; CHROMOSOME MAP; DNA FLANKING REGION; DNA SEQUENCE; EPIGENETICS; FLUORESCENCE IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; GENE LOCUS; MAIZE; METAPHASE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PLANT EVOLUTION; PLANT GENOME; RETROPOSON; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; TANDEM REPEAT; EVOLUTION; GENETICS; PLANT CHROMOSOME; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

ZEA MAYS;

BASE SEQUENCE; CENTROMERE; CHROMOSOMES, PLANT; DNA, PLANT; EVOLUTION; GENETIC LOCI; RETROELEMENTS; ZEA MAYS;

EID: 73649146539     PISSN: 15537390     EISSN: 15537404     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1000743     Document Type: Article

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