Orthologous numbering of great ape and human chromosomes is essential for comparative genomics

Cytogenetic and Genome Research

Volumn 105, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 157-158

  McConkey, E H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APE; BIOLOGY; CHROMOSOME; CHROMOSOME ANALYSIS; CHROMOSOME SIZE; CYTOGENETICS; DNA SEQUENCE; GENE MAPPING; GENE TRANSLOCATION; GENOME ANALYSIS; GENOMICS; HUMAN; HUMAN GENOME; KARYOTYPE; NOMENCLATURE; NONHUMAN; NOTE; ORTHOLOGY; PHYLOGENY; PRIMATE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SPECIES COMPARISON; SYNTENY;

ANIMALS; CHROMOSOMES; CHROMOSOMES, HUMAN; GENOMICS; HOMINIDAE; HUMANS; KARYOTYPING; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; TERMINOLOGY;

ALOCASIA MACRORRHIZOS; PRIMATES;

EID: 3042641037     PISSN: 14248581     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000078022     Document Type: Note

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