Genome-wide analysis of DNA methylation and gene expression changes in two Arabidopsis ecotypes and their reciprocal hybrids

Plant Cell

Volumn 24, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 875-892

  Shen, Huaishun ^a,b   He, Hang ^a   Li, Jigang ^a,b   Chen, Wei ^a   Wang, Xuncheng ^a   Guo, Lan ^a   Peng, Zhiyu ^a   He, Guangming ^a,b   Zhong, Shangwei ^a,b   Qi, Yijun ^c   Terzaghi, William ^b,d   Deng, Xing Wang ^a,b  

^a PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES   (China)

^d WILKES UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 84860109530     PISSN: 10404651     EISSN: 1532298X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1105/tpc.111.094870     Document Type: Article

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