Centromere Epigenetics in Plants

Journal of Genetics and Genomics

Volumn 40, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 201-204

  Birchler, James A ^a   Han, Fangpu ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI   (United States)

^b INSTITUTE OF GENETICS AND DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HISTONE H3;

ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL CHROMOSOME; AUTOSOME; BUDDING; CENTROMERE; CHROMOSOME INACTIVATION; DICENTRIC CHROMOSOME; DNA SEQUENCE; EPIGENETICS; EUKARYOTE; HISTONE MODIFICATION; MAIZE; MINICHROMOSOME; NONDISJUNCTION; NONHUMAN; PLANT GENETICS; RETROPOSON; TANDEM REPEAT; TRANSPOSON; WHEAT;

CENTROMERE; CHROMOSOMES, PLANT; EPIGENESIS, GENETIC; EPIGENOMICS; NONDISJUNCTION, GENETIC; PLANTS;

EID: 84878164702     PISSN: 16738527     EISSN: 18735533     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jgg.2013.03.008     Document Type: Article

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