Control of transposable elements in Arabidopsis thaliana

Chromosome Research

Volumn 22, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 217-223

  Ito, Hidetaka ^a   Kakutani, Tetsuji ^b  

^a HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF GENETICS   (Japan)

Author keywords

DNA methylation; Epigenetics; Genomics; Heterochromatin

Indexed keywords

HISTONE; PLANT DNA; TRANSPOSON;

ARABIDOPSIS; DNA METHYLATION; GENE SILENCING; GENETIC EPIGENESIS; GENETICS; GENOMICS; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; PLANT GENOME; RNA INTERFERENCE; TRANSPOSON;

ARABIDOPSIS; DNA METHYLATION; DNA TRANSPOSABLE ELEMENTS; DNA, PLANT; EPIGENESIS, GENETIC; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENE SILENCING; GENOME, PLANT; GENOMICS; HISTONES; RNA INTERFERENCE;

EID: 84905103078     PISSN: 09673849     EISSN: 15736849     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10577-014-9417-9     Document Type: Review

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