The distribution of genes in the Drosophila genome

Gene

Volumn 247, Issue 1-2, 2000, Pages 287-292

  Jabbari, Kamel ^a   Bernardi, Giorgio ^a,b  

^a INSTITUT JACQUES MONOD   (France)

^b Laboratorio di Evoluzione Molecolare   (Italy)

Author keywords

Genome organization; Isochores

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; DROSOPHILA; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETIC ANALYSIS; HUMAN; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; TECHNIQUE;

ANIMALS; BASE COMPOSITION; CODON; DATABASES, FACTUAL; DNA; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; GC RICH SEQUENCE; GENES, INSECT; GENOME; GENOME, HUMAN; HUMANS;

ARABIDOPSIS;

EID: 0034682032     PISSN: 03781119     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-1119(00)00128-1     Document Type: Article

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