Chargaff's legacy

Gene

Volumn 261, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 127-137

  Forsdyke, Donald R ^a   Mortimer, James R ^a  

^a QUEEN S UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Base composition; Chargaff's rules; Double stranded RNA; Self Not self discrimination; Speciation; Szybalski's transcription direction rule; Thermophiles

Indexed keywords

DOUBLE STRANDED RNA; NUCLEIC ACID;

BACTERIAL GENE; BIOGENESIS; CODON; DNA BASE COMPOSITION; DNA HELIX; DNA RECOMBINATION; DNA STRUCTURE; GENE DUPLICATION; GENE MUTATION; GENOME; HUMAN; ISOCHORE; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; NONHUMAN; PARITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SPECIES DIFFERENTIATION; TETRAHYMENA; VIRUS GENOME;

ANIMALS; BASE COMPOSITION; CODON; DNA; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; HUMANS; MUTATION; PHYLOGENY; RNA; SELECTION (GENETICS); TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

EID: 0034736520     PISSN: 03781119     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-1119(00)00472-8     Document Type: Review

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