Recent and frequent insertions of chloroplast DNA into maize nuclear chromosomes

Cytogenetic and Genome Research

Volumn 129, Issue 1-3, 2010, Pages 17-23

  Roark, L M ^a   Hui, A Y ^a   Donnelly, L ^a   Birchler, J A ^a   Newton, Kathleen J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI   (United States)

Author keywords

FISH; In situ hybridization; Nuclear plastid sequences; Zea mays

Indexed keywords

CHLOROPLAST DNA; DNA FRAGMENT; MITOCHONDRIAL DNA; PLANT DNA; PRIMER DNA;

ARTICLE; CELL NUCLEUS; CHLOROPLAST GENOME; CHROMOSOME 5; CHROMOSOME ARM; DNA HYBRIDIZATION; DNA PROBE; DNA SEQUENCE; DNA TRANSFER; FLUORESCENCE IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; GENE INSERTION; INBRED STRAIN; MAIZE; MITOCHONDRION; MITOSIS; NONHUMAN; PLANT GENOME; PLASTID; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; TRANSGENIC CROP; CLASSIFICATION; GENETICS; INBREEDING; MITOCHONDRIAL GENOME; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PLANT CHROMOSOME; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; TIME; TRANSPOSON;

ZEA MAYS;

BASE SEQUENCE; CELL NUCLEUS; CHROMOSOMES, PLANT; DNA PRIMERS; DNA TRANSPOSABLE ELEMENTS; DNA, CHLOROPLAST; DNA, MITOCHONDRIAL; DNA, PLANT; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENOME, CHLOROPLAST; GENOME, MITOCHONDRIAL; GENOME, PLANT; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION, FLUORESCENCE; INBREEDING; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; TIME FACTORS; ZEA MAYS;

EID: 77955288984     PISSN: 14248581     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000312724     Document Type: Article

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