Molecular Mechanisms of Transposon Epigenetic Regulation

Plant Transposons and Genome Dynamics in Evolution

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 71-92

  Martienssen, Robert A ^a,b,c   Chandler, Vicki L ^b  

^a Developmental Genetics Program   (United States)

^b GORDON AND BETTY MOORE FOUNDATION   (United States)

^c Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Chromatin remodeling; DNA histone modification; Heterochromatin, and germ cell fate; Molecular mechanisms; Paramutation; RdDM; RNAi; SiRNA translocation and sectoring; Transposon epigenetic regulation; Transposon silencing, and transgenerational

Indexed keywords

EID: 84886454656     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9781118500156.ch5     Document Type: Chapter

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