A Method for Evaluating Phylogenetic Relationship of α-Satellite DNA Suprachromosomal Family by Nucleotide Frequency Calculation

Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution

Volumn 13, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 329-335

  Kato, Mikio ^a   Kato, Aya ^a   Shimizu, Nobuyoshi ^b  

^a Osaka Prefecture University   (Japan)

^b KEIO UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

satellite; genetic distance; phylogeny; repetitive sequence.

Indexed keywords

SATELLITE DNA;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; GENETICS; HUMAN; HUMAN CHROMOSOME; METHODOLOGY; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE REPEAT; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PAN TROGLODYTES; PHYLOGENY; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICS; X CHROMOSOME;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CHROMOSOMES, HUMAN; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; DNA, SATELLITE; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; HUMANS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PAN TROGLODYTES; PHYLOGENY; REPETITIVE SEQUENCES, NUCLEIC ACID; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, NUCLEIC ACID; STATISTICS; X CHROMOSOME;

EID: 0033217879     PISSN: 10557903     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/mpev.1999.0665     Document Type: Article

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