Variations on a team: Major and minor variants of arabidopsis thaliana rDNA genes

Nucleus

Volumn 2, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 294-299

  Abou Ellail, Mohamed ^a   Cooke, Richard ^a   Sáez Vásquez, Julio ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE PERPIGNAN   (France)

Author keywords

Arabidopsis; NORs; Nucleolin; rDNA; rRNA

Indexed keywords

INTERNAL TRANSCRIBED SPACER; NUCLEOLIN; RIBOSOME DNA; RNA 5S;

ARABIDOPSIS; ARTICLE; CHROMOSOME; ECOTYPE; GENE MUTATION; GENE SILENCING; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; NONHUMAN; PLANT GENE; PROTEIN BINDING; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS;

EID: 83455179423     PISSN: 19491034     EISSN: 19491042     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4161/nucl.2.4.16561     Document Type: Article

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