Dynamics of functional heterochromatic domains in the plant interphase nucleus

Cytogenetic and Genome Research

Volumn 129, Issue 1-3, 2010, Pages 64-71

  Delgado, M ^a,b   Frescatada, M ^a   Ribeiro Varandas, E ^a   Viegas, W ^a   Jones, R Neil ^c  

^a INSTITUTO SUPERIOR DE AGRONOMIA   (Portugal)

^b UNIVERSIDADE LUSÓFONA DE HUMANIDADES E TECNOLOGIAS   (Portugal)

^c ABERYSTWYTH UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Centromere; DNA methylation; Epigenetics; Histone acetylation; Interphase nucleus; Nucleolar organizing region

Indexed keywords

CELL CYCLE; CELL NUCLEUS; CELL NUCLEUS MATRIX; CENTROMERE; CHROMOSOME NOR; DNA METHYLATION; DNA SEQUENCE; EPIGENETICS; EUKARYOTE; HETEROCHROMATIN; INTERPHASE; MEIOSIS; MITOSIS; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; NONHUMAN; PLANT CHROMOSOME; PLANT GENOME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; TELOMERE; ARABIDOPSIS; ARTICLE; GENETIC EPIGENESIS; GENETICS; PLANT; WHEAT;

EUKARYOTA;

ARABIDOPSIS; CELL NUCLEUS; CENTROMERE; EPIGENESIS, GENETIC; GENOME, PLANT; HETEROCHROMATIN; INTERPHASE; NUCLEOLUS ORGANIZER REGION; PLANTS; TRITICUM;

EID: 77955302858     PISSN: 14248581     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000311607     Document Type: Review

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