Compositional correlations in the chicken genome

Journal of Molecular Evolution

Volumn 49, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 325-329

  Musto, Héctor ^a,b   Romero, Héctor ^a,b   Zavala, Alejandro ^a   Bernardi, Giorgio ^c  

^a UNIVERSIDAD DE LA REPÚBLICA   (Uruguay)

^b DEPARTAMENTO DE BIOQUÍMICA   (Uruguay)

^c STAZIONE ZOOLOGICA ANTON DOHRN   (Italy)

Author keywords

Gallus gallus; Genome evolution; Genome organization; Isochores

Indexed keywords

CYTOSINE; GUANINE;

ARTICLE; CHICKEN; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA BASE COMPOSITION; DNA FLANKING REGION; DNA SEQUENCE; EXON; GENE LOCATION; INTRON; NONHUMAN;

3' UNTRANSLATED REGIONS; 5' UNTRANSLATED REGIONS; ANIMALS; BASE PAIRING; CHICKENS; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENOME; GENOME, HUMAN; HUMANS;

AVES; GALLUS GALLUS;

EID: 0032875960     PISSN: 00222844     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/PL00006555     Document Type: Article

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