Epialleles in plant evolution

Genome Biology

Volumn 13, Issue 10, 2012, Pages

  Weigel, Detlef ^a   Colot, Vincent ^b,c  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY   (Germany)

^b PSL RESEARCH UNIVERSITY   (France)

^c INSERM   (France)

Author keywords

DNA methylation; epialleles; epigenetics; genetics; plant evolution

Indexed keywords

SMALL INTERFERING RNA;

ALLELE; DEMETHYLATION; DNA METHYLATION; DNA SEQUENCE; EPIALLELE; EPIGENETICS; GENE FREQUENCY; NONHUMAN; PLANT EVOLUTION; PLANT GENETICS; PLANT GENOME; REVIEW; TANDEM REPEAT; GENETIC EPIGENESIS; GENETICS; HEREDITY; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MUTATION; PLANT; PLANT GENE; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY;

DNA METHYLATION; EPIGENESIS, GENETIC; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENES, PLANT; HEREDITY; MUTATION; PLANTS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, NUCLEIC ACID;

EID: 84867390947     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1474760X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/gb-2012-13-10-249     Document Type: Review

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