The holocentric species Luzula elegans shows interplay between centromere and large-scale genome organization

Plant Journal

Volumn 73, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 555-565

  Heckmann, Stefan ^a   MacAs, Jiri ^b   Kumke, Katrin ^a   Fuchs, Jörg ^a   Schubert, Veit ^a   Ma, Lu ^a   Novák, Petr ^b   Neumann, Pavel ^b   Taudien, Stefan ^c   Platzer, Matthias ^c   Houben, Andreas ^a  

^a LEIBNIZ INSTITUTE OF PLANT GENETICS AND CROP PLANT RESEARCH IPK   (Germany)

^b INSTITUTE OF PLANT MOLECULAR BIOLOGY   (Czech Republic)

^c FRITZ LIPMANN INSTITUTE   (Germany)

Author keywords

centromere; histone marks; holocentric genome organization; holokinetic chromosome; Luzula elegans; repetitive DNA

Indexed keywords

CENTROMERE; DISTRIBUTION PATTERNS; ELEGANS; GENOME ORGANIZATION; GENOME SIZES; HIGHER PLANTS; HISTONE MARKS; LARGE-SCALE STRUCTURE; MITOTIC CHROMOSOMES; MONOCENTRIC;

DNA; PLANTS (BOTANY); SATELLITES;

GENES;

PLANT DNA; SATELLITE DNA;

ANGIOSPERM; ARTICLE; CELL NUCLEUS; CENTROMERE; DNA REPLICATION; FLUORESCENCE IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENETICS; GENOME SIZE; METABOLISM; METAPHASE; NUCLEOTIDE REPEAT; PLANT CHROMOSOME; PLANT GENOME; PLASTID; RETROPOSON;

ANGIOSPERMS; CELL NUCLEUS; CENTROMERE; CHROMOSOMES, PLANT; DNA REPLICATION; DNA, PLANT; DNA, SATELLITE; GENETIC VARIATION; GENOME SIZE; GENOME, PLANT; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION, FLUORESCENCE; METAPHASE; PLASTIDS; REPETITIVE SEQUENCES, NUCLEIC ACID; RETROELEMENTS;

EMBRYOPHYTA; LUZULA; LUZULA ELEGANS; TRACHEOPHYTA;

EID: 84874251886     PISSN: 09607412     EISSN: 1365313X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/tpj.12054     Document Type: Article

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