Dynamic epigenetic states of maize centromeres

Frontiers in Plant Science

Volumn 6, Issue OCTOBER, 2015, Pages

  Liu, Yalin ^a,b   Su, Handong ^a,b   Zhang, Jing ^a   Liu, Yang ^a,b   Han, Fangpu ^a   Birchler, James A ^c  

^a INSTITUTE OF GENETICS AND DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI   (United States)

Author keywords

Centromere inactivation; Centromere pairing; De novo centromere; Epigenetics; Maize; Neocentromere; Non disjunction

Indexed keywords

EID: 84947432314     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1664462X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fpls.2015.00904     Document Type: Review

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