DNA methylation epigenetically silences crossover hot spots and controls chromosomal domains of meiotic recombination in Arabidopsis

Genes and Development

Volumn 29, Issue 20, 2015, Pages 2183-2202

  Yelina, Nataliya E ^a   Lambing, Christophe ^a   Hardcastle, Thomas J ^a   Zhao, Xiaohui ^a   Santos, Bruno ^a   Henderson, Ian R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Centromeres; Crossover; DNA methylation; Epigenetics; Hot spots; Meiosis

Indexed keywords

BISULFITE; PLANT DNA; PLANT RNA; ARABIDOPSIS PROTEIN; DNA (CYTOSINE 5) METHYLTRANSFERASE; MET1 PROTEIN, ARABIDOPSIS; NUCLEOSOME;

ARABIDOPSIS; ARTICLE; CENTROMERE; CHROMATIN ASSEMBLY AND DISASSEMBLY; CHROMOSOME ARM; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSSING OVER; CYTOGENETICS; DNA METHYLATION; DOUBLE STRANDED DNA BREAK; EPIGENETICS; FANCM GENE; MEIOTIC RECOMBINATION; MET1 GENE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOSOME; PLANT CHROMOSOME; PLANT GENE; PLANT GENOME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; ZIP4 GENE; ENZYMOLOGY; GENETICS; HOMOLOGOUS RECOMBINATION; MEIOSIS; MUTATION;

ARABIDOPSIS; ARABIDOPSIS PROTEINS; CENTROMERE; CHROMOSOMES, PLANT; CROSSING OVER, GENETIC; DNA (CYTOSINE-5-)-METHYLTRANSFERASE; DNA BREAKS, DOUBLE-STRANDED; DNA METHYLATION; EPIGENOMICS; HOMOLOGOUS RECOMBINATION; MEIOSIS; MUTATION; NUCLEOSOMES;

EID: 84944809725     PISSN: 08909369     EISSN: 15495477     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1101/gad.270876.115     Document Type: Article

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