Strong nucleosomes of A. thaliana concentrate in centromere regions

Journal of Biomolecular Structure and Dynamics

Volumn 33, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 10-13

  Salih, Bilal ^a   Trifonov, Edward N ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAIFA   (Israel)

Author keywords

centromere; chromosome structure; helitron; MuDR; strong nucleosome; transposable element

Indexed keywords

ARABIDOPSIS THALIANA; ARTICLE; CENTROMERE; CHROMATID; CHROMATIN STRUCTURE; HELITRON TRANSPOSON; MUDR TRANSPOSON; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOSOME; PLANT CHROMOSOME; PLANT GENOME; STRONG NUCLEOSOME; TRANSPOSON; ARABIDOPSIS; CHEMISTRY; CHROMOSOME MAP; DNA SEQUENCE; GENETICS; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE;

NUCLEOSOME; PLANT DNA;

ARABIDOPSIS; BASE SEQUENCE; CENTROMERE; CHROMOSOME MAPPING; CHROMOSOMES, PLANT; DNA, PLANT; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NUCLEOSOMES; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

EID: 84908576219     PISSN: 07391102     EISSN: 15380254     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/07391102.2013.860624     Document Type: Article

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