Stretching the rules: Monocentric chromosomes with multiple centromere domains

PLoS Genetics

Volumn 8, Issue 6, 2012, Pages

  Neumann, Pavel ^a   Navrátilová, Alice ^a   Schroeder Reiter, Elizabeth ^b   Koblížková, Andrea ^a   Steinbauerová, Veronika ^a   Chocholová, Eva ^a   Novák, Petr ^a   Wanner, Gerhard ^b   Macas, Jiří ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF PLANT MOLECULAR BIOLOGY   (Czech Republic)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CENTROMERE; CHROMOSOME; CHROMOSOME SATELLITE; CHROMOSOME SIZE; DNA SEQUENCE; DNA STRUCTURE; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; FLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; GENE FUNCTION; GENE LOCATION; GENE LOCUS; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC CONSERVATION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; RETROPOSON; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; CHROMOSOME SEGREGATION; CYTOLOGY; GENETICS; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE REPEAT; PEA;

PISUM; PISUM SATIVUM;

HISTONE; SATELLITE DNA; TUBULIN;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; CENTROMERE; CHROMOSOME SEGREGATION; CHROMOSOMES; DNA, SATELLITE; HISTONES; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PEAS; REPETITIVE SEQUENCES, NUCLEIC ACID; RETROELEMENTS; TUBULIN;

EID: 84864053237     PISSN: 15537390     EISSN: 15537404     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1002777     Document Type: Article

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