The age of Alu subfamilies

Journal of Molecular Evolution

Volumn 42, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 59-65

  Kapitonov, Vladimir ^a,b   Jurka, Jerzy ^a  

^a OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b INSTITUTE OF CYTOLOGY AND GENETICS   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

Alu repeats; Molecular evolution; Primates; Repetitive DNA; Subfamilies

Indexed keywords

AGE; COMPUTER ANALYSIS; CONFERENCE PAPER; CONSENSUS SEQUENCE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; MULTIGENE FAMILY; SHORT INTERSPERSED REPEAT;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; HUMANS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; REPETITIVE SEQUENCES, NUCLEIC ACID; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS;

MAMMALIA; PRIMATES;

EID: 0030045979     PISSN: 00222844     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF00163212     Document Type: Conference Paper

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