Genome sequence of the Brown Norway rat yields insights into mammalian evolution

Nature

Volumn 428, Issue 6982, 2004, Pages 493-520

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^a BAYLOR COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b BRITISH COLUMBIA CANCER AGENCY   (Canada)

^c CELERA GENOMICS   (United States)

^d CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^e DSM Pharmaceutical Products   (Netherlands)

^f The Institute for Biological Energy Alternatives   (United States)

^g Intronn Inc ^*  (United States)

^h The Center for the Advancement of Genomics   (United States)

ⁱ Avalon Pharmaceuticals   (United States)

^j NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ALLERGY AND INFECTIOUS DISEASES   (United States)

^k DynPort Vaccine Company   (United States)

^l GENOME THERAPEUTICS CORPORATION   (United States)

^m Agencourt Bioscience Corporation   (United States)

ⁿ UNIVERSITY OF UTAH   (United States)

^o NATIONAL HUMAN GENOME RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

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

^q WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^r J CRAIG VENTER INSTITUTE   (United States)

^s Affymetrix   (United States)

^t WELLCOME TRUST SANGER INSTITUTE   (United Kingdom)

^u EUROPEAN MOLECULAR BIOLOGY LABORATORY   (Germany)

^v MAX DELBRÜCK CENTER FOR MOLECULAR MEDICINE   (Germany)

^w FRAUNHOFER CHALMERS CENTRE   (Sweden)

^x Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center   (United States)

^y Experimental Station   (United States)

^z INST MUNIC D INVESTIGACIO MEDICA   (Spain)

^aa INSTITUTE FOR SYSTEMS BIOLOGY   (United States)

^ab LAWRENCE BERKELEY NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^ac DOE JOINT GENOME INSTITUTE   (United States)

^ad MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR MOLECULAR GENETICS   (Germany)

^ae MEDICAL COLLEGE OF WISCONSIN   (United States)

^af UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^ag MWG Biotech   (Germany)

^ah PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^ai F HOFFMANN LA ROCHE LTD   (Switzerland)

^aj WELLCOME TRUST SANGER INSTITUTE   (United Kingdom)

^ak STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^al STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^am University of Arizona   (United States)

^an Center de Recherches Mathematiques   (Canada)

^ao DEPARTAMENTO DE BIOQUÍMICA Y BIOLOGÍA MOLECULAR   (Spain)

^ap UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^aq UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^ar UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^as University of California Santa Cruz   (United States)

^at CARDIFF UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^au UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

^av WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^aw UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^ax WISTAR INSTITUTE   (United States)

^ay NATIONAL HEART LUNG AND BLOOD INSTITUTE   (United States)

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Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DISEASES; DRUG PRODUCTS; GENES; HEALTH; MEDICINE; NATURAL SCIENCES; PROTEINS;

MAMMALIAN EVOLUTION; MAMMALIAN GENOMES;

GENETIC ENGINEERING;

DNA; M PROTEIN; MITOCHONDRIAL DNA; UNTRANSLATED RNA;

EVOLUTION; GENOME; MAMMAL;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; CENTROMERE; CHROMOSOME; CONTROLLED STUDY; CPG ISLAND; EXPERIMENTAL MODEL; GENE DUPLICATION; GENE LOSS; GENE REARRANGEMENT; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC CONSERVATION; GENETIC POLYMORPHISM; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOME; HISTORY; HUMAN; KARYOTYPE; MAMMAL; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MOUSE; MULTIGENE FAMILY; NONHUMAN; ORTHOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; RAT STRAIN; RNA GENE; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SPECIES COMPARISON; SPECIES DIFFERENTIATION; TELOMERE; ANIMAL; BROWN NORWAY RAT; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; DNA BASE COMPOSITION; DNA SEQUENCE; GENETICS; GENOMICS; INTRON; MALE; MUTAGENESIS; REGULATORY SEQUENCE; RETROPOSON; RNA SPLICING; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; TRANSPOSON;

MAMMALIA; RATTUS; RATTUS NORVEGICUS;

ANIMALS; BASE COMPOSITION; CENTROMERE; CHROMOSOMES, MAMMALIAN; CPG ISLANDS; DNA TRANSPOSABLE ELEMENTS; DNA, MITOCHONDRIAL; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENE DUPLICATION; GENOME; GENOMICS; HUMANS; INTRONS; MALE; MICE; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MUTAGENESIS; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; RATS; RATS, INBRED BN; REGULATORY SEQUENCES, NUCLEIC ACID; RETROELEMENTS; RNA SPLICE SITES; RNA, UNTRANSLATED; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; TELOMERE;

EID: 1842684068     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature02426     Document Type: Article

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