CpG islands of chicken are concentrated on microchromosomes

Nature Genetics

Volumn 12, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 321-324

  McQueen, Heather A ^a   Fantes, Judy ^b   Cross, Sally H ^a   Clark, Victoria H ^a   Archibald, Alan L ^c   Bird, Adrian P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^b WESTERN GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHICKEN; GENE MAPPING; GENE SEQUENCE; KARYOTYPE; MICROCHROMOSOME; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CHICK EMBRYO; CHROMOSOME MAPPING; CPG ISLANDS; DNA; GENE LIBRARY; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION, FLUORESCENCE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA;

EID: 0030005944     PISSN: 10614036     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ng0396-321     Document Type: Article

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