Formation of a functional maize centromere after loss of centromeric sequences and gain of ectopic sequences

Plant Cell

Volumn 25, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 1979-1989

  Zhang, Bing ^a,b   Lv, Zhenling ^a   Pang, Junling ^a,b   Liu, Yalin ^a,b   Guo, Xiang ^a,b   Fu, Shulan ^a   Li, Jun ^a   Dong, Qianhua ^a,b   Wu, Hua Jun ^a   Gao, Zhi ^c   Wang, Xiu Jie ^a   Hana, Fangpu ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF GENETICS AND DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ZEA MAYS;

PLANT DNA; TRANSCRIPTOME; VEGETABLE PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; CENTROMERE; CHROMATIN IMMUNOPRECIPITATION; CYTOLOGY; DNA METHYLATION; DNA MICROARRAY; DNA SEQUENCE; FLUORESCENCE IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; GENE DELETION; GENETICS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MAIZE; MEIOSIS; METABOLISM; NUCLEOTIDE REPEAT; PLANT CHROMOSOME; PLANT GENOME; RETROPOSON; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

CENTROMERE; CHROMATIN IMMUNOPRECIPITATION; CHROMOSOMES, PLANT; DNA METHYLATION; DNA, PLANT; GENOME, PLANT; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION, FLUORESCENCE; MEIOSIS; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE ARRAY SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; PLANT PROTEINS; REPETITIVE SEQUENCES, NUCLEIC ACID; RETROELEMENTS; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SEQUENCE DELETION; TRANSCRIPTOME; ZEA MAYS;

EID: 84880934920     PISSN: 10404651     EISSN: 1532298X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1105/tpc.113.110015     Document Type: Article

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