Higher frequency of concerted evolutionary events in rodents than in man at the polyubiquitin gene VNTR locus

Genetics

Volumn 148, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 867-876

  Nenoi, Mitsuru ^a   Mita, Kazuei ^a   Ichimura, Sachiko ^a   Kawano, Akihiro ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF RADIOLOGICAL SCIENCES   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

POLYUBIQUITIN;

ALLELE; ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CHINESE HAMSTER; EVOLUTION; GENE ISOLATION; GENE LOCUS; GENETIC CONSERVATION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VARIABLE NUMBER OF TANDEM REPEAT;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; BIOPOLYMERS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CRICETINAE; CRICETULUS; CROSSING OVER, GENETIC; DATABASES, FACTUAL; DNA MUTATIONAL ANALYSIS; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; HELA CELLS; HUMANS; MINISATELLITE REPEATS; MODELS, GENETIC; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; POLYMORPHISM, GENETIC; POLYUBIQUITIN; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; UBIQUITINS;

ANIMALIA; CRICETINAE; CRICETULUS GRISEUS; EUKARYOTA; RODENTIA;

EID: 0031934057     PISSN: 00166731     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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