Quality not quantity: The pufferfish genome

Human Molecular Genetics

Volumn 5, Issue REVIEW, 1996, Pages 1437-1442

  Elgar, Greg ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA; REPETITIVE DNA;

DNA METHYLATION; EXON; FISH; GENOME; INTRON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REGULATOR GENE; SHORT SURVEY;

EID: 0029810306     PISSN: 09646906     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/hmg/5.supplement_1.1437     Document Type: Short Survey

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