Conservation and divergence of transcriptomic and epigenomic variation in maize hybrids

Genome Biology

Volumn 14, Issue 6, 2013, Pages

  He, Guangming ^a   Chen, Beibei ^b,c   Wang, Xuncheng ^d   Li, Xueyong ^b,e   Li, Jigang ^a,b   He, Hang ^a   Yang, Mei ^a   Lu, Lu ^f   Qi, Yijun ^g   Wang, Xiping ^f   Wang Deng, Xing ^a,b  

^a PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c INSTITUTE OF BIOPHYSICS   (China)

^d TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY   (China)

^e INSTITUTE OF PLANT PROTECTION   (China)

^f BEIJING NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^g NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES   (China)

Author keywords

Epigenome; Maize hybrids; Transcriptome

Indexed keywords

SMALL INTERFERING RNA; TRANSCRIPTOME; HISTONE; NUCLEOSOME; TRANSPOSON;

ARTICLE; DNA METHYLATION; EPIGENETICS; GENE CONTROL; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE MAPPING; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOTYPE; HISTONE MODIFICATION; HYBRID; INBRED STRAIN; MAIZE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOSOME; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PLANT ROOT; PROTEIN ASSEMBLY; SHOOT; TRANSPOSON; UPREGULATION; CHEMISTRY; CHIMERA; CROSS BREEDING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETIC EPIGENESIS; GENETICS; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR GENETICS; PLANT; PLANT GENOME;

ZEA MAYS;

BASE SEQUENCE; CHIMERA; CONSERVED SEQUENCE; CROSSES, GENETIC; DNA METHYLATION; DNA TRANSPOSABLE ELEMENTS; EPIGENESIS, GENETIC; EPIGENOMICS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, PLANT; GENETIC VARIATION; GENOME, PLANT; GENOTYPE; HISTONES; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NUCLEOSOMES; PLANT ROOTS; PLANT SHOOTS; RNA, SMALL INTERFERING; TRANSCRIPTOME; ZEA MAYS;

EID: 84878816745     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1474760X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/gb-2013-14-6-r57     Document Type: Article

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