The evolution of genome size: What can be learned from anuran development?

Journal of Experimental Zoology

Volumn 291, Issue 4, 2001, Pages 365-374

  Khaner, Oded ^a   Chipman, Ariel D ^a   Tchernov, Eitan ^a   Haas, Alexander ^b  

^a HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

^b FRIEDRICH SCHILLER UNIVERSITY JENA   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMPHIBIA; VERTEBRATA;

SPACER DNA;

ANIMAL; ANIMAL EMBRYO; ARTICLE; CELL DIVISION; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CYTOLOGY; EMBRYOLOGY; EVOLUTION; FROGS AND TOADS; GENETICS; GENOME; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; TIME;

ANIMAL; ANURA; CELL DIVISION; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DNA, INTERGENIC; EMBRYO, NONMAMMALIAN; EVOLUTION; GENOME; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 0035892249     PISSN: 0022104X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/jez.1135     Document Type: Article

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