Recent advances in plant centromere biology

Science China Life Sciences

Volumn 58, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 240-245

  Feng, Chao ^a,b   Liu, YaLin ^a,b   Su, HanDong ^a,b   Wang, HeFei ^a,b   Birchler, James ^c   Han, FangPu ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI   (United States)

Author keywords

CENH3; centromere; epigenetics

Indexed keywords

HISTONE; PLANT DNA;

CENTROMERE; GENETIC EPIGENESIS; GENETICS; PLANT;

CENTROMERE; DNA, PLANT; EPIGENESIS, GENETIC; HISTONES; PLANTS;

EID: 84940008506     PISSN: 16747305     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11427-015-4818-3     Document Type: Review

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