Genome sizes in Afrotheria, Xenarthra, Euarchontoglires, and Laurasiatheria

Journal of Heredity

Volumn 96, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 485-493

  Redi, C A ^a   Zacharias, H ^b   Merani, S ^c   Oliveira Miranda, M ^d   Aguilera, M ^d   Zuccotti, M ^e   Garagna, S ^a   Capanna, E ^f  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PAVIA   (Italy)

^b Universidad de Buenos Aires ^*  (Germany)

^c UNIVERSIDAD DE BUENOS AIRES   (Argentina)

^d UNIVERSIDAD SIMÓN BOLÍVAR   (Venezuela)

^e UNIVERSITY OF PARMA   (Italy)

^f SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; BAT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA CONTENT; DNA SEQUENCE; EDENTATA; GENOME ANALYSIS; GENOME SIZE; HAPLOIDY; INTERSPECIFIC RELATIONSHIP; KARYOTYPE; MAMMAL; MOLECULAR RECOGNITION; NONHUMAN; PERISSODACTYLA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SPECIES COMPARISON;

ANIMALS; DATABASES, GENETIC; DNA; GENOME; GENOMICS; INTERNET; MAMMALS; PHOTOMETRY; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

ANIMALIA; CHIROPTERA; DASYPODIDAE; DIDELPHIMORPHIA; EDENTATA; EUTHERIA; INVERTEBRATA; MAMMALIA; METATHERIA; MUS MUSCULUS; PERISSODACTYLA; RODENTIA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 26844580922     PISSN: 00221503     EISSN: 14657333     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/jhered/esi080     Document Type: Article

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