Metastable Differentially Methylated Regions within Arabidopsis Inbred Populations Are Associated with Modified Expression of Non-Coding Transcripts

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 9, 2012, Pages

  Havecker, Ericka R ^a   Wallbridge, Laura M ^a   Fedito, Paola ^b   Hardcastle, Thomas J ^a   Baulcombe, David C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY MEDITERRANEA OF REGGIO CALABRIA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGO5 PROTEIN; MESSENGER RNA; PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; UNTRANSLATED RNA;

ARABIDOPSIS; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIFFERENTIALLY METHYLATED REGION; DNA METHYLATION; DNA SEQUENCE; EPIALLALE; EPIGENETICS; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC STABILITY; GENETIC VARIABILITY; INBRED STRAIN; MUTANT; NONHUMAN; PLANT GENETICS; PROMOTER REGION; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION SITE; WILD TYPE;

ALLELES; ARABIDOPSIS; ARABIDOPSIS PROTEINS; DNA METHYLATION; DNA, PLANT; EPIGENESIS, GENETIC; GENETIC LOCI; GENETIC VARIATION; GENETICS, POPULATION; GENOTYPE; MUTATION; PROMOTER REGIONS, GENETIC; RNA, MESSENGER; RNA, UNTRANSLATED; RNA-BINDING PROTEINS;

ARABIDOPSIS;

EID: 84866725445     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0045242     Document Type: Article

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