Conservation of long-range synteny and microsynteny between the genomes of two distantly related nematodes

Genome Biology

Volumn 3, Issue 10, 2002, Pages

  Guiliano, Db ^a   Hall, N ^b   Jones, Sjm ^c   Clark, Ln ^b   Corton, Ch ^b   Barrell, Bg ^b   Blaxter, Ml ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^b WELLCOME TRUST SANGER INSTITUTE   (United Kingdom)

^c BRITISH COLUMBIA CANCER RESEARCH CENTRE   (Canada)

Author keywords

Filarial Parasite; Genome Survey Sequence; Intron Position; Orthology Assignment; PWWP Domain

Indexed keywords

CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS PROTEIN; HELMINTH PROTEIN;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BRUGIA MALAYI; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CHROMOSOME MAP; COMPARATIVE STUDY; GENE; GENETICS; GENOME; MOLECULAR GENETICS; MULTIGENE FAMILY; NEMATODE; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SYNTENY;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BRUGIA MALAYI; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS PROTEINS; CHROMOSOME MAPPING; CONSERVED SEQUENCE; GENES, HELMINTH; GENOME; HELMINTH PROTEINS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MULTIGENE FAMILY; NEMATODA; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SYNTENY;

EID: 18344415274     PISSN: 14747596     EISSN: 1474760X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/gb-2002-3-10-research0057     Document Type: Article

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