Locus-specific ribosomal RNA gene silencing in nucleolar dominance.

The silencing of one parental set of rRNA genes in a genetic hybrid is an epigenetic phenomenon known as nucleolar dominance. We showed previously that silencing is restricted to the nucleolus organizer regions (NORs), the loci where rRNA genes are tandemly arrayed, and does not spread to or from ne...

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Main Authors: Michelle S Lewis, Diane J Pikaard, Mikhail Nasrallah, Jed H Doelling, Craig S Pikaard
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2007-08-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC1950575?pdf=render