The kangaroo genome. Leaps and bounds in comparative genomics

EMBO Reports

Volumn 4, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 143-147

  Wakefield, Matthew J ^a,b   Marshall Graves, Jennifer A ^a  

^a AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL GENETICS; CHROMOSOME ANALYSIS; COMPARATIVE GENOMIC HYBRIDIZATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOGENETICS; CYTOLOGY; DNA SEQUENCE; GENE FUNCTION; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC CONSERVATION; KANGAROO; MARSUPIAL; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPRODUCTION; REVIEW; EPIGENETICS; GENOME ANALYSIS; GENOMICS; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION;

ANIMALS; EVOLUTION; GENOME; GENOMICS; MACROPODIDAE; MARSUPIALIA; PHYLOGENY;

ANIMALIA; MACROPUS SP.; MAMMALIA; METATHERIA;

EID: 0037296787     PISSN: 1469221X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/sj.embor.embor739     Document Type: Review

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