Chromatin features of plant telomeric sequences at terminal vs. internal positions

Frontiers in Plant Science

Volumn 5, Issue November, 2014, Pages

  Majerová, Eva ^a   Mandáková, Terezie ^a   Vu, Giang T H ^b,d   Fajkus, Jiří ^a,c   Lysak, Martin A ^a   Fojtová, Miloslava ^a  

^a MASARYK UNIVERSITY   (Czech Republic)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR PLANT BREEDING RESEARCH   (Germany)

^c INSTITUTE OF BIOPHYSICS   (Czech Republic)

^d LEIBNIZ INSTITUTE OF PLANT GENETICS AND CROP PLANT RESEARCH IPK   (Germany)

Author keywords

Ballantinia antipoda; Chromatin; DNA methylation; Epigenetics; Histone modifications; Nicotiana tabacum; Telomere

Indexed keywords

EID: 84908611981     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1664462X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fpls.2014.00593     Document Type: Article

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