DNA methylation and histone modification in onion chromosomes

Genes and Genetic Systems

Volumn 85, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 377-382

  Suzuki, Go ^a   Shiomi, Maho ^a   Morihana, Sayuri ^a   Yamamoto, Maki ^b   Mukai, Yasuhiko ^a  

^a OSAKA KYOIKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b KANSAI UNIVERSITY OF WELFARE SCIENCES   (Japan)

Author keywords

Allium cepa; Chromatin; Chromosome; Histone; Methylation

Indexed keywords

5 METHYLCYTOSINE; DINUCLEOTIDE; HISTONE H3; LYSINE;

ARTICLE; CHROMATIN STRUCTURE; CHROMOSOME MARKER; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA DETERMINATION; DNA METHYLATION; DNA NICK TRANSLATION; EUCHROMATIN; GENETIC EPIGENESIS; HETEROCHROMATIN; HISTONE MODIFICATION; IMMUNODETECTION; METAPHASE; NONHUMAN; ONION; PLANT CHROMOSOME; PLANT GENOME; PLANT MODEL; PROTEIN DNA INTERACTION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SPECIES DIFFERENCE;

5-METHYLCYTOSINE; CHROMOSOMES; CHROMOSOMES, PLANT; DNA METHYLATION; EPIGENOMICS; EUCHROMATIN; GENOME; HETEROCHROMATIN; HISTONES; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION, FLUORESCENCE; ONIONS; PROTEIN PROCESSING, POST-TRANSLATIONAL;

ALLIUM CEPA;

EID: 79952967240     PISSN: 13417568     EISSN: 18805779     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1266/ggs.85.377     Document Type: Article

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