Seeing the forest for the trees: A wide perspective on RNA-directed DNA methylation

Genes and Development

Volumn 26, Issue 16, 2012, Pages 1769-1773

  Zhang, Huiming ^a   Zhu, Jian Kang ^a,b  

^a PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Chinese Academy of Sciences   (China)

Author keywords

DNA methylation; DNA dependent RNA polymerase; Epigenetics; Gene silencing; RNA directed DNA methylation; Short interfering RNA

Indexed keywords

RNA POLYMERASE; SMALL INTERFERING RNA;

ARTICLE; DNA METHYLATION; FOREST; GENOME ANALYSIS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RNA DIRECTED DNA METHYLATION; TREE;

ARABIDOPSIS; ARABIDOPSIS PROTEINS; CYTOSINE; DNA METHYLATION; DNA-DIRECTED RNA POLYMERASES; GENOME, PLANT; RNA, SMALL INTERFERING;

EID: 84865091911     PISSN: 08909369     EISSN: 15495477     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1101/gad.200410.112     Document Type: Article

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