Co-expression of neighbouring genes in Arabidopsis: Separating chromatin effects from direct interactions

BMC Genomics

Volumn 11, Issue 1, 2010, Pages

  Chen, Wei Hua ^a,b   de Meaux, Juliette ^c   Lercher, Martin J ^a  

^a HEINRICH HEINE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b EUROPEAN MOLECULAR BIOLOGY LABORATORY   (Germany)

^c MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR PLANT BREEDING RESEARCH   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARABIDOPSIS; ARTICLE; BASE PAIRING; CHROMATIN; CHROMATIN ASSEMBLY AND DISASSEMBLY; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE INTERACTION; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; NONHUMAN; PROMOTER REGION; RNA INTERFERENCE; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; TRANSCRIPTION TERMINATION; DNA MICROARRAY; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENETICS; METABOLISM; PLANT GENE;

ARABIDOPSIS; ARABIDOPSIS THALIANA; EUKARYOTA;

ARABIDOPSIS; CHROMATIN; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, PLANT; GENES, PLANT; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE ARRAY SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; PROMOTER REGIONS, GENETIC; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

EID: 77951888464     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712164     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2164-11-178     Document Type: Article

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