Transposable Elements as Catalysts for Chromosome Rearrangements

Methods in Molecular Biology

Volumn 701, Issue , 2011, Pages 315-326

  Zhang, Jianbo ^a   Yu, Chuanhe ^a   Krishnaswamy, Lakshminarasimhan ^b   Peterson, Thomas ^a  

^a IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI   (United States)

Author keywords

Ac Ds; Arabidopsis; Chromosome rearrangements; Deletion; Duplication; Inversion; Maize; Rice; Transposable elements

Indexed keywords

ARABIDOPSIS; ARTICLE; CHROMOSOME ABERRATION; GENETICS; MAIZE; PLANT; PLANT CHROMOSOME; RICE; TRANSPOSON;

ARABIDOPSIS; CHROMOSOME ABERRATIONS; CHROMOSOMES, PLANT; DNA TRANSPOSABLE ELEMENTS; ORYZA SATIVA; PLANTS; ZEA MAYS;

MLCS; MLOWN;

EID: 79953785642     PISSN: 10643745     EISSN: 19406029     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-1-61737-957-4_18     Document Type: Chapter

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