Evolutionary dynamics of microsatellite DNA

Chromosoma

Volumn 109, Issue 6, 2000, Pages 365-371

  Schlotterer, C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VETERINARY MEDICINE   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALLOENZYME; DINUCLEOTIDE; MESSENGER RNA; MICROSATELLITE DNA; TRINUCLEOTIDE;

ARABIDOPSIS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; DEGENERATIVE DISEASE; DINUCLEOTIDE REPEAT; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DNA POLYMORPHISM; DNA REPLICATION; DNA SEQUENCE; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE FREQUENCY; GENE MAPPING; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC MARKER; HUMAN; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MUTATION RATE; NONHUMAN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; POPULATION GENETICS; REVIEW; TRINUCLEOTIDE REPEAT;

ARABIDOPSIS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; ESCHERICHIA COLI; HEXAPODA; MELANOGASTER; NEGIBACTERIA;

EID: 0033808899     PISSN: 00095915     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s004120000089     Document Type: Review

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