Copying out our ABCs: The role of gene redundancy in interpreting genetic hierarchies

Trends in Genetics

Volumn 15, Issue 11, 1999, Pages 435-437

  Martienssen, Rob ^a   Irish, Vivian ^b  

^a Simons Center for Quantitative Biology   (United States)

^b YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA;

ALLELE; ARABIDOPSIS; GENE DUPLICATION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE MUTATION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC MODEL; GENOME; NONHUMAN; PLANT GROWTH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SHORT SURVEY;

ARABIDOPSIS; CHROMOSOME MAPPING; GENE DUPLICATION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; GENES, HOMEOBOX; GENES, PLANT; GENOME, PLANT; PLANT PROTEINS;

ARABIDOPSIS; EMBRYOPHYTA;

EID: 0033230044     PISSN: 01689525     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0168-9525(99)01833-8     Document Type: Short Survey

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