Structure and function of centromeric and pericentromeric heterochromatin in arabidopsis thaliana

Frontiers in Plant Science

Volumn 6, Issue NOVEMBER, 2015, Pages

  Simon, Lauriane ^a   Voisin, Maxime ^a   Tatout, Christophe ^a   Probst, Aline V ^a  

^a Faculté de Médecine   (France)

Author keywords

3D nucleus; Centromere; Chromocenter; Histone variants; Lamina; Nuclear envelope

Indexed keywords

EID: 84951038686     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1664462X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fpls.2015.01049     Document Type: Review

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