Visualization of Diffuse Centromeres with Centromere-Specific Histone H3 in the Holocentric Plant Luzula nivea
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Visualization of diffuse centromeres with centromere-specific histone H3 in the holocentric plant Luzula nivea.
Although holocentric species are scattered throughout the plant and animal kingdoms, only holocentric chromosomes of the nematode worm Caenorhabditis elegans have been analyzed with centromeric protein markers. In an effort to determine the holocentric structure in plants, we investigated the snowy woodrush Luzula nivea. From the young roots, a cDNA encoding a putative centromere-specific histo...
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عنوان ژورنال: The Plant Cell
سال: 2005
ISSN: 1532-298X
DOI: 10.1105/tpc.105.032961