Evolutionary genomics: Reading the bands

BioEssays

Volumn 22, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 105-107

  Hurst, Laurence D ^a   Eyre Walker, Adam ^b  

^a University of Bath ^*  (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SUSSEX   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHROMOSOME BANDING; CODON; DNA; EVOLUTION; GIEMSA STAIN; HUMAN CHROMOSOME; HUMAN GENOME; INTRON; MOSAICISM;

CHROMOSOME BANDING; CHROMOSOMES, HUMAN; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENOME, HUMAN; HUMANS; LINKAGE (GENETICS); TIME FACTORS;

EID: 0033952048     PISSN: 02659247     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1521-1878(200002)22:2<105::AID-BIES1>3.0.CO;2-S     Document Type: Article

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