Spreading of Heterochromatin Is Limited to Specific Families of Maize Retrotransposons

PLoS Genetics

Volumn 8, Issue 12, 2012, Pages

  Eichten, Steven R ^a   Ellis, Nathanael A ^b   Makarevitch, Irina ^c   Yeh, Cheng Ting ^d   Gent, Jonathan I ^b   Guo, Lin ^b   McGinnis, Karen M ^e   Zhang, Xiaoyu ^b   Schnable, Patrick S ^d   Vaughn, Matthew W ^f   Dawe, R Kelly ^b   Springer, Nathan M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA   (United States)

^c HAMLINE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HISTONE H3;

ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL SELECTION; BASE PAIRING; DNA FLANKING REGION; DNA METHYLATION; GENE INSERTION; GENE LOCATION; GENE REPRESSION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENE SILENCING; GENOTYPE; HETEROCHROMATIN; HISTONE METHYLATION; MAIZE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PLANT GENETICS; PLANT GENOME; RETROPOSON;

BASE SEQUENCE; DNA METHYLATION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, PLANT; GENE SILENCING; GENOME, PLANT; HETEROCHROMATIN; HISTONES; RETROELEMENTS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; ZEA MAYS;

ZEA MAYS;

EID: 84872051484     PISSN: 15537390     EISSN: 15537404     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1003127     Document Type: Article

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