Sequence and comparative analysis of the chicken genome provide unique perspectives on vertebrate evolution

Nature

Volumn 432, Issue 7018, 2004, Pages 695-716

  Hillier, Ladeana W ^a   Miller, Webb ^b   Birney, Ewan ^c   Warren, Wesley ^a   Hardison, Ross C ^b   Ponting, Chris P ^d   Bork, Peer ^e,f   Burt, David W ^g   Groenen, Martien A M ^h   Delany, Mary E ⁱ   Dodgson, Jerry B ^j   Chinwalla, Asif T ^a   Cliften, Paul F ^a   Clifton, Sandra W ^a   Delehaunty, Kimberly D ^a   Fronick, Catrina ^a   Fulton, Robert S ^a   Graves, Tina A ^a   Kremitzki, Colin ^a   Layman, Dan ^a   Magrini, Vincent ^a   McPherson, John D ^a   Miner, Tracie L ^aw   Minx, Patrick ^a   Nash, William E ^a   Nhan, Michael N ^a   Nelson, Joanne O ^a   Oddy, Lachlan G ^a   Pohl, Craig S ^a   Randall Maher, Jennifer ^a   Smith, Scott M ^a   Wallis, John W ^a   Yang, Shiaw Pyng ^a   Romanov, Michael N ^j   Rondelli, Catherine M ^j   Paton, Bob ^g   Smith, Jacqueline ^g   Morrice, David ^g   Daniels, Laura ⁱ   Tempest, Helen G ^k   Robertson, Lindsay ^k   Masabanda, Julio S ^k   Griffin, Darren K ^k   Vignal, Alain ^l   Fillon, Valerie ^l   Jacobbson, Lina ^m   Kerje, Susanne ^m   Andersson, Leif ^m   Crooijmans, Richard P M ^h   Aerts, Jan ^h   van der Poel, Jan J ^h   Ellegren, Hans ⁿ   Caldwell, Randolph B ^o   Hubbard, Simon J ^p   Grafham, Darren V ^c   Kierzek, Andrzej M ^q   McLaren, Stuart R ^c   Overton, Ian M ^p   Arakawa, Hiroshi ^o   Beattie, Kevin J ^r   Bezzubov, Yuri ^o   Boardman, Paul E ^p   Bonfield, James K ^c   Croning, Michael D R ^c   Davies, Robert M ^c   Francis, Matthew D ^c   Humphray, Sean J ^c   Scott, Carol E ^c   Taylor, Ruth G ^c   Tickle, Cheryll ^r   Brown, William R A ^s   Rogers, Jane ^c   Buerstedde, Jean Marie ^o   Wilson, Stuart A ^t   Stubbs, Lisa ^u   Ovcharenko, Ivan ^u   Gordon, Laurie ^u   Lucas, Susan ^v   Miller, Marcia M ^w   Inoko, Hidetoshi ^x   Shiina, Takashi ^x   Kaufman, Jim ^y   Salomonsen, Jan ^z   Skjoedt, Karsten ^aa   Wong, Gane Ka Shu ^ab,ac,ad   Wang, Jun ^ab,ac   Liu, Bin ^ab   Wang, Jian ^ab,ac   Yu, Jun ^ab,ac   Yang, Huanming ^ab,ac   Nefedov, Mikhail ^ae   Koriabine, Maxim ^ae   Dejong, Pieter J ^ae   Goodstadt, Leo ^d   Webber, Caleb ^d   Dickens, Nicholas J ^d   Letunic, Ivica ^f   Suyama, Mikita ^f   Torrents, David ^f   von Mering, Christian ^f   Zdobnov, Evgeny M ^f   Makova, Kateryna ^b   Nekrutenko, Anton ^b   Elnitski, Laura ^b   Eswara, Pallavi ^b   King, David C ^b   Yang, Shan ^b   Tyekucheva, Svitlana ^b   Radakrishnan, Anusha ^b   Harris, Robert S ^b   Chiaromonte, Francesca ^b   Taylor, James ^b   He, Jianbin ^b   Rijnkels, Monique ^af   Griffiths Jones, Sam ^c   Ureta Vidal, Abel ^c   Hoffman, Michael M ^c   Severin, Jessica ^c   Searle, Stephen M J ^c   Law, Andy S ^g   Speed, David ^g   Waddington, Dave ^g   Cheng, Ze ^ag   Tuzun, Eray ^ag   Eichler, Evan ^ag   Bao, Zhirong ^ag   Flicek, Paul ^ah   Shteynberg, David D ^ah   Brent, Michael R ^ah   Bye, Jacqueline M ^c   Huckle, Elizabeth J ^c   Chatterji, Sourav ^ai   Dewey, Colin ^ai   Pachter, Lior ^ai   Kouranov, Andrei ^aj   Mourelatos, Zissimos ^aj   Hatzigeorgiou, Artemis G ^aj   Paterson, Andrew H ^ak   Ivarie, Robert ^ak   Brandstrom, Mikael ⁿ   Axelsson, Erik ⁿ   Backstrom, Niclas ⁿ   Berlin, Sofia ⁿ   Webster, Matthew T ⁿ   Pourquie, Olivier ^al   Reymond, Alexandre ^am   Ucla, Catherine ^am   Antonarakis, Stylianos E ^am   Long, Manyuan ^an   Emerson, J J ^an   Betrán, Esther ^ao   Dupanloup, Isabelle ^ap   Kaessmann, Henrik ^ap   Hinrichs, Angie S ^aq   Bejerano, Gill ^aq   Furey, Terrence S ^aq   Harte, Rachel A ^aq   Raney, Brian ^aq   Siepel, Adam ^m   James Kent, W ^aq   Haussler, David ^aq   Eyras, Eduardo ^ar   Castelo, Robert ^ar   Abril, Josep F ^ar   Castellano, Sergi ^ar   Camara, Francisco ^ar   Parra, Genis ^ar   Guigo, Roderic ^ar   Bourque, Guillaume ^as   Tesler, Glenn ^at   Pevzner, Pavel A ^au   Smit, Arian ^av   Fulton, Lucinda A ^a   Mardis, Elaine R ^a   Wilson, Richard K ^a   more..

^a WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c WELLCOME TRUST SANGER INSTITUTE   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^e MAX DELBRÜCK CENTER FOR MOLECULAR MEDICINE   (Germany)

^f EUROPEAN MOLECULAR BIOLOGY LABORATORY   (Germany)

^g UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^h WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

ⁱ UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^j Michigan State University ^*  (United States)

^k BRUNEL UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^l CEMAGREF   (France)

^m UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

ⁿ UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^o INSTITUTE OF EPIDEMIOLOGY   (Germany)

^p UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

^q INSTITUTE OF BIOCHEMISTRY AND BIOPHYSICS   (Poland)

^r UNIVERSITY OF DUNDEE   (United Kingdom)

^s UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^t UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

^u LAWRENCE LIVERMORE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^v DOE JOINT GENOME INSTITUTE   (United States)

^w CITY OF HOPE NATIONAL MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^x TOKAI UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^y INSTITUTE FOR ANIMAL HEALTH   (United Kingdom)

^z UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^aa UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN DENMARK   (Denmark)

^ab INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

^ac ZHEJIANG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^ad UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^ae CHILDREN S HOSPITAL OAKLAND RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^af BAYLOR COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^ag UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^ah WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^ai UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^aj UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^ak University of Georgia ^*  (United States)

^al STOWERS INSTITUTE FOR MEDICAL RESEARCH   (United States)

^am UNIVERSITY OF GENEVA MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Switzerland)

^an UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

^ao UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT ARLINGTON   (United States)

^ap UNIVERSITY OF LAUSANNE   (Switzerland)

^aq University of California Santa Cruz   (United States)

^ar INST MUNIC D INVESTIGACIO MEDICA   (Spain)

^as GENOME INSTITUTE OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^at UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^au UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^av INSTITUTE FOR SYSTEMS BIOLOGY   (United States)

^aw NONE

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Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; CHROMOSOMES; PROTEINS;

CHROMOSOME ARCHITECTURE; FUNCTIONAL ELEMENTS; GENOME SEQUENCES; NON-CODING SEQUENCES;

GENES;

PROTEIN;

BIRD; GENOME;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BASE PAIRING; CHICKEN; CHROMOSOME STRUCTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DINOSAUR; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC CODE; GENOMICS; MAMMAL; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; NONHUMAN; ORTHOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DOMAIN; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SPECIES COMPARISON; VERTEBRATE;

ANIMALIA; AVES; DINOSAURIA; GALLIFORMES; GALLUS; GALLUS GALLUS; MAMMALIA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 10644283823     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature03154     Document Type: Article

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