Composition and organization of active centromere sequences in complex genomes

BMC Genomics

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 2012, Pages

  Hayden, Karen E ^a,b   Willard, Huntington F ^a  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b University of California Santa Cruz   (United States)

Author keywords

Canis familiaris (dog); CENP A; Centromere; Centromere protein A; Satellite DNAs

Indexed keywords

CENTROMERE PROTEIN A; HISTONE H3;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CENTROMERE; CHROMOSOME SATELLITE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EPIGENETICS; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC DATABASE; GENETIC ORGANIZATION; GENOME ANALYSIS; GENOMICS; MOLECULAR GENETICS; MULTIGENE FAMILY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PROTEIN DOMAIN; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CENTROMERE; CHROMATIN IMMUNOPRECIPITATION; DATABASES, GENETIC; DNA TRANSPOSABLE ELEMENTS; DNA, SATELLITE; DOGS; GENE LIBRARY; GENOME; MADIN DARBY CANINE KIDNEY CELLS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE ANNOTATION;

EID: 84865314431     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712164     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2164-13-324     Document Type: Article

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