An hypothesis about genome structures in mammalian polyploid cells based on a new concept that genome is fractal of six hierarchies

Medical Hypotheses

Volumn 66, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 337-344

  Fujikawa Yamamoto, Kohzaburo ^a  

^a KANAZAWA MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

DNA;

BASE PAIRING; CELL DIVISION; CELL NUCLEUS; CHROMOSOME; CHROMOSOME BAND; CHROMOSOME STRUCTURE; DIPLOIDY; DNA CONTENT; DNA REPLICATION; DNA STRUCTURE; DNA SYNTHESIS; GENOME; HUMAN; MAMMAL CELL; MITOSIS INHIBITION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOSOME; PLOIDY; POLYPLOIDY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPLICON; REVIEW; ROSETTE FORMATION;

MAMMALIA;

EID: 28844456959     PISSN: 03069877     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.mehy.2005.08.033     Document Type: Article

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