Molecular melodies in high and low C

Nature Reviews Genetics

Volumn 1, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 145-149

  Hartl, Daniel L ^a  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; CHROMOSOME; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; GENETICS; GENOME; GRASSHOPPER; REVIEW; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; TRANSPOSON; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

ANIMALS; CHROMOSOMES; DNA TRANSPOSABLE ELEMENTS; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; GENOME; GRASSHOPPERS; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

EID: 0034332317     PISSN: 14710056     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/35038580     Document Type: Review

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