Genie mutation rates in mammals: Local similarity, chromosomal heterogeneity, and X-versus-autosome disparity

Molecular Biology and Evolution

Volumn 20, Issue 10, 2003, Pages 1633-1641

  Malcom, Christine M ^a   Wyckoff, Gerald J ^a,b   Lahn, Bruce T ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI KANSAS CITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Comparative genomics; Male driven evolution; Molecular evolution; Mutation rate; Sex chromosomes; Synteny bins

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; AUTOSOME; EVOLUTION; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC CODE; GENETIC HETEROGENEITY; HUMAN; MAMMAL; MOUSE; MUTATION RATE; NONHUMAN; RAT; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; X CHROMOSOME; X CHROMOSOME LINKAGE; ANIMAL; FEMALE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; MALE; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MUTATION; SYNTENY;

MAMMALIA;

ANIMALS; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MICE; MUTATION; RATS; SYNTENY; VARIATION (GENETICS); X CHROMOSOME;

EID: 0347601042     PISSN: 07374038     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/molbev/msg178     Document Type: Article

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