Compositional gene landscapes in vertebrates

Genome Research

Volumn 14, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 886-892

  Cruveiller, Stéphane ^a,c   Jabbari, Kamel ^b,d   Clay, Oliver ^a   Bernardi, Giorgio ^a  

^a Laboratorio di Evoluzione Molecolare   (Italy)

^b INSTITUT JACQUES MONOD   (France)

^c CENTRE NATIONAL DE SÉQUENÇAGE   (France)

^d ECOLE NORMALE SUPÉRIEURE   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; CHICKEN; CHROMOSOME ANALYSIS; CODON; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA BASE COMPOSITION; DNA DETERMINATION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC CODE; GENETIC DATABASE; HUMAN; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VERTEBRATE;

ANIMALS; CHICKENS; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; HUMANS; MICE; PROTEIN BIOSYNTHESIS; PROTEINS; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; XENOPUS LAEVIS;

GALLUS GALLUS; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 2442684084     PISSN: 10889051     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1101/gr.2246704     Document Type: Article

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