Low frequency of microsatellites in the avian genome

Genome Research

Volumn 7, Issue 5, 1997, Pages 471-482

  Primmer, Craig R ^a   Raudsepp, Terje ^a   Chowdhary, Bhanu P ^a   Møller, Anders Pape ^b   Ellegren, Hans ^a  

^a SWEDISH UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES   (Sweden)

^b SORBONNE UNIVERSITÉ   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MICROSATELLITE DNA; NUCLEIC ACID;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CENTROMERE; CHICKEN; CHROMOSOME ANALYSIS; CODON; DATA BASE; DOT HYBRIDIZATION; EVOLUTION; FOWL; GENE FREQUENCY; GENE MAPPING; GENOME; INVERTEBRATE; MAMMAL; METAPHASE CHROMOSOME; MICROCHROMOSOME; NONHUMAN; PLANT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEX CHROMOSOME; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; TELOMERE;

EID: 0030972828     PISSN: 10889051     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1101/gr.7.5.471     Document Type: Article

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