Male-driven evolution of DNA sequences in birds

Nature Genetics

Volumn 17, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 182-184

  Ellegren, Hans ^a   Fridolfsson, Anna Karin ^a  

^a SWEDISH UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA; PRIMER DNA;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BIRD; COMPARATIVE STUDY; EXON; FEMALE; GENETICS; INTRON; MALE; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MOLECULAR GENETICS; MUTATION; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OOCYTE DEVELOPMENT; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SEX CHROMOSOME; SEXUAL DEVELOPMENT; SPERMATOGENESIS;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; BIRDS; DNA; DNA PRIMERS; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; EXONS; FEMALE; INTRONS; MALE; MODELS, GENETIC; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTATION; OOGENESIS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, NUCLEIC ACID; SEX CHARACTERISTICS; SEX CHROMOSOMES; SPERMATOGENESIS;

EID: 0031252815     PISSN: 10614036     EISSN: 15461718     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ng1097-182     Document Type: Letter

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