Patterns and rates of indel evolution in processed pseudogenes from humans and murids

Gene

Volumn 205, Issue 1-2, 1997, Pages 191-202

  Ophir, Ron ^a   Graur, Dan ^a  

^a TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

Indel evolution; Processed pseudogenes; Retropseudogenes; Truncation

Indexed keywords

CONFERENCE PAPER; EVOLUTION; GENE DELETION; GENE INSERTION; HUMAN; MOUSE; MUTATION RATE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSEUDOGENE; RAT;

ANIMALS; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; HUMANS; MURIDAE; MUTAGENESIS, INSERTIONAL; PSEUDOGENES; SEQUENCE DELETION; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

MURIDAE;

EID: 0031593238     PISSN: 03781119     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-1119(97)00398-3     Document Type: Conference Paper

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