Genes on B chromosomes: Old questions revisited with new tools

Biochimica et Biophysica Acta - Gene Regulatory Mechanisms

Volumn 1849, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 64-70

  Banaei Moghaddam, Ali M ^a,d   Martis, Mihaela M ^b   Macas, Jiří ^c   Gundlach, Heidrun ^b   Himmelbach, Axel ^a   Altschmied, Lothar ^a   Mayer, Klaus F X ^b   Houben, Andreas ^a  

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

^b INSTITUTE OF EPIDEMIOLOGY   (Germany)

^c INSTITUTE OF PLANT MOLECULAR BIOLOGY   (Czech Republic)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TEHRAN   (Iran)

Author keywords

Gene regulation; Genome evolution; Junk DNA; Pseudogene; Supernumerary chromosome; Transcription

Indexed keywords

LONG UNTRANSLATED RNA; RIBOSOME RNA; RNA DIRECTED RNA POLYMERASE; TRANSCRIPTOME; SPACER DNA;

ACROCENTRIC CHROMOSOME; ANEUPLOIDY; AUTOSOME; BIOINFORMATICS; CHROMATIN STRUCTURE; CHROMOSOME 4; CHROMOSOME ABERRATION; CHROMOSOME BANDING PATTERN; CHROMOSOME CONDENSATION; CHROMOSOME NUMBER; CHROMOSOME POLYMORPHISM; CHROMOSOME REARRANGEMENT; GENE; GENE CONTROL; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOME; HOST; MEIOSIS; MUTATION RATE; NONHUMAN; NORTHERN BLOTTING; POSITION EFFECT VARIEGATION; PSEUDOGENE; REGULATORY MECHANISM; RETROPOSON; REVIEW; ROBERTSONIAN CHROMOSOME TRANSLOCATION; SEX CHROMOSOME; SUPERNUMERARY CHROMOSOME; TRANSPOSON; Y CHROMOSOME; ANIMAL; CHROMOSOME; EUKARYOTE; FLUORESCENCE IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GENETICS; HUMAN; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION;

ANIMALS; CHROMOSOMES; DNA, INTERGENIC; EUKARYOTA; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENOME; HUMANS; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION, FLUORESCENCE; PSEUDOGENES; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

EID: 84916918755     PISSN: 18749399     EISSN: 18764320     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bbagrm.2014.11.007     Document Type: Review

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