Organization of the chicken histone genes in a major gene cluster and generation of an almost complete set of the core histone protein sequences

DNA Research

Volumn 3, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 95-99

  Takami, Yasunari ^a   Higashio, Mari ^a   Fukuoka, Takuya ^a   Takechi, Shinji ^a   Nakayama, Tatsuo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MIYAZAKI   (Japan)

Author keywords

Chicken; Gene cluster; Histone genes; Nucleotide sequence; Variants

Indexed keywords

HISTONE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; CHICKEN; CHROMOSOME MAP; DNA SEQUENCE; GENETICS; MOLECULAR CLONING; MULTIGENE FAMILY; OPEN READING FRAME; RESTRICTION MAPPING; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; CHICKENS; CHROMOSOME MAPPING; CLONING, MOLECULAR; HISTONES; MULTIGENE FAMILY; OPEN READING FRAMES; RESTRICTION MAPPING; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, NUCLEIC ACID;

EID: 0030606540     PISSN: 13402838     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/dnares/3.2.95     Document Type: Article

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