Recombination explains isochores in mammalian genomes

Trends in Genetics

Volumn 19, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 128-130

  Montoya Burgos, Juan Ignacio ^a   Boursot, Pierre ^a   Galtier, Nicolas ^a  

^a CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA FRAGMENT;

CODON; DENSITY; EVOLUTION; EXON; GENE TRANSLOCATION; GENETIC ORGANIZATION; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; GENOME; INTRON; ISOCHORE; MAMMAL; MOLECULAR MECHANICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RODENT; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SHORT SURVEY;

ANIMALS; BASE COMPOSITION; EVOLUTION; GC RICH SEQUENCE; GENES; GENOME; HUMANS; ISOCHORES; MINISATELLITE REPEATS; PHYLOGENY; RECOMBINATION, GENETIC; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; TRANSLOCATION, GENETIC;

MAMMALIA; RODENTIA;

EID: 0037372234     PISSN: 01689525     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0168-9525(03)00021-0     Document Type: Short Survey

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