Comparison of the chicken and turkey genomes reveals a higher rate of nucleotide divergence on microchromosomes than macrochromosomes

Genome Research

Volumn 15, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 120-125

  Axelsson, Erik ^a   Webster, Matthew T ^a   Smith, Nick G C ^b   Burt, David W ^c   Ellegren, Hans ^a  

^a UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b LANCASTER UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NUCLEIC ACID; NUCLEOTIDE;

ARTICLE; CHICKEN; CHROMOSOME SIZE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DENSITY; FOWL; GC RICH SEQUENCE; GENE LOCATION; GENE MUTATION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC CODE; GENETIC HETEROGENEITY; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOME ANALYSIS; GERM LINE; INCIDENCE; INTRON; MICROCHROMOSOME; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEIC ACID BASE SUBSTITUTION; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; ORTHOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; TURKEY (BIRD);

ANIMALS; BASE COMPOSITION; CHICKENS; CHROMOSOMES; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENOME; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTAGENESIS; NUCLEOTIDES; RECOMBINATION, GENETIC; TURKEYS; VARIATION (GENETICS);

EID: 12744271852     PISSN: 10889051     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1101/gr.3021305     Document Type: Article

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