Distinct Changes of Genomic Biases in Nucleotide Substitution at the Time of Mammalian Radiation

Molecular Biology and Evolution

Volumn 20, Issue 11, 2003, Pages 1887-1896

  Arndt, Peter F ^a,b   Petrov, Dmitri A ^c   Hwa, Terence ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COLOGNE   (Germany)

^c NONE

Author keywords

CpG methylation; GC content; Nucleotide substitution; Repetitive elements

Indexed keywords

CYTOSINE; METHYL GROUP;

ARTICLE; CPG ISLAND; DNA BASE COMPOSITION; DNA METHYLATION; GENOME; HUMAN; INTERSPERSED REPEAT; ISOCHORE; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD METHOD; NONHUMAN; NUCLEIC ACID BASE SUBSTITUTION; RADIATION RESPONSE; REPTILE;

CPG ISLANDS; CYTOSINE; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENOME, HUMAN; HUMANS; ISOCHORES; LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS; MODELS, GENETIC; MODELS, STATISTICAL;

EUTHERIA; MAMMALIA; REPTILIA;

EID: 0242666279     PISSN: 07374038     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/molbev/msg204     Document Type: Article

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