Polarized gene conversion at the bz locus of maize

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 111, Issue 38, 2014, Pages 13918-13923

  Dooner, Hugo K ^a,b   He, Limei ^a  

^a RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Conversion polarity; Meiotic recombination

Indexed keywords

ALLELE; CROSSING OVER; GENE CONVERSION; GENE LOCUS; GENETICS; HETEROZYGOTE; MAIZE; MUTATION; PLANT GENE;

ALLELES; CROSSING OVER, GENETIC; GENE CONVERSION; GENES, PLANT; GENETIC LOCI; HETEROZYGOTE; MUTATION; ZEA MAYS;

EID: 84907260936     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1415482111     Document Type: Article

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