The identification and characterization of microsatellites in the compact genome of the Japanese Pufferfish, Fugu rubripes: Perspectives in functional and comparative genomic analyses

Journal of Molecular Biology

Volumn 278, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 843-854

  Edwards, Yvonne J K ^a   Elgar, Greg ^a   Clark, Melody S ^a   Bishop, Martin J ^a  

^a MRC Human Genome Mapping Programme RC   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Comparative and functional genomics; DNA sequence analysis; Fugu rubripes genome; Microsatellites; Repetitive DNA

Indexed keywords

DNA; MICROSATELLITE DNA;

ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DNA DETERMINATION; DNA SEQUENCE; EVOLUTION; FISH; GENE FUNCTION; GENOME; NONHUMAN; OPEN READING FRAME; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

FUGU RUBRIPES; MAMMALIA; TAKIFUGU; TAKIFUGU RUBRIPES; TETRAODONTIDAE; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 0032525245     PISSN: 00222836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/jmbi.1998.1752     Document Type: Article

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