Vanishing GC-rich isochores in mammalian genomes

Genetics

Volumn 162, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 1837-1847

  Duret, Laurent ^a   Semon, Marie ^a   Piganeau, Gwenaël ^b   Mouchiroud, Dominique ^a   Galtier, Nicolas ^c  

^a UNIVERSITÉ LYON 1   (France)

^b School of Life Sciences   (United Kingdom)

^c CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADENINE; CYTOSINE; GUANINE; THYMINE;

ALLELE; ARTICLE; DNA BASE COMPOSITION; GENE CONVERSION; GENE FREQUENCY; GENE MUTATION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC POLYMORPHISM; GENETIC SELECTION; GENOME; HUMAN; ISOCHORE; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEIC ACID BASE SUBSTITUTION; PHYLOGENY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS;

ALLELES; ANIMALS; ARTIODACTYLA; BASE COMPOSITION; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENE CONVERSION; GENOME; GENOME, HUMAN; HUMANS; ISOCHORES; MAMMALS; MODELS, GENETIC; PRIMATES; RODENTIA; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

MAMMALIA; PRIMATES; RODENTIA;

EID: 0036959203     PISSN: 00166731     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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