DNA repeat arrays in chicken and human genomes and the adaptive evolution of avian genome size

BMC Evolutionary Biology

Volumn 5, Issue , 2005, Pages

  Hughes, Austin L ^a   Piontkivska, Helen ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AVES; GALLIFORMES; GALLUS GALLUS; TETRAPODA;

DNA;

ANIMAL; BIOLOGY; CHEMISTRY; CHICKEN; CHROMOSOME; DNA MICROARRAY; DNA MUTATIONAL ANALYSIS; GENOME; HUMAN; HUMAN GENOME; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; NUCLEOTIDE REPEAT; SOFTWARE; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

ANIMALS; CHICKENS; CHROMOSOMES; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; DNA; DNA MUTATIONAL ANALYSIS; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENOME; GENOME, HUMAN; HUMANS; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE ARRAY SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; REPETITIVE SEQUENCES, NUCLEIC ACID; SOFTWARE; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

EID: 15244344647     PISSN: 14712148     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2148-5-12     Document Type: Article

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