Two distinct modes of microsatellite mutation processes: Evidence from the complete genomic sequences of nine species

Genome Research

Volumn 13, Issue 10, 2003, Pages 2242-2251

  Dieringer, Daniel ^a   Schlötterer, Christian ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VETERINARY MEDICINE   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MICROSATELLITE DNA; NUCLEIC ACID BASE;

ARTICLE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE MUTATION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENOME ANALYSIS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEIC ACID BASE SUBSTITUTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SPECIES COMPARISON; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

ANIMALS; ARABIDOPSIS; BASE COMPOSITION; BASE PAIRING; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CANDIDA ALBICANS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENOME; GENOME, FUNGAL; GENOME, HUMAN; GENOME, PLANT; HUMANS; MICE; MICROSATELLITE REPEATS; MODELS, GENETIC; MUTAGENESIS; ORYZA SATIVA; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; TAKIFUGU; VARIATION (GENETICS);

EID: 10744226741     PISSN: 10889051     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1101/gr.1416703     Document Type: Article

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