Centromere retention and loss during the descent of maize from a tetraploid ancestor

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 109, Issue 51, 2012, Pages 21004-21009

  Wang, Hao ^a   Bennetzen, Jeffrey L ^a  

^a University of Georgia ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Centromere inactivation; Chromosome number changes; Grass genome evolution; Paleopolyploidy

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CENTROMERE; CHROMOSOME INSERTION; CHROMOSOME PAIRING; CHROMOSOME STRUCTURE; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GRASS; KARYOTYPE; MAIZE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RICE; SORGHUM; TETRAPLOIDY;

CELL LINEAGE; CENTROMERE; CHROMOSOME MAPPING; DATABASES, FACTUAL; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENOME, PLANT; MODELS, GENETIC; PHYLOGENY; POLYPLOIDY; SORGHUM; TETRAPLOIDY; ZEA MAYS;

EUKARYOTA; ZEA MAYS;

EID: 84871399497     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1218668109     Document Type: Article

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