Strong and weak male mutation bias at different sites in the primate genomes: Insights from the human-chimpanzee comparison

Molecular Biology and Evolution

Volumn 23, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 565-573

  Taylor, James ^a   Tyekucheva, Svitlana ^a   Zody, Michael ^b   Chiaromonte, Francesca ^a   Makova, Kateryna D ^a  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b BROAD INSTITUTE OF MIT AND HARVARD   (United States)

Author keywords

Genome evolution; Male mutation bias; Male driven evolution

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; AUTOSOME; CELL DIVISION; CHIMPANZEE; CPG ISLAND; GENE LOCUS; GENE MUTATION; GENE REPLICATION; GERM LINE; MALE MUTATION BIAS; METHYLATION; PRIMATE; SEX RATIO;

ANIMALS; BASE COMPOSITION; CHROMOSOMES; CPG ISLANDS; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; FEMALE; GENOME; HUMANS; MALE; MUTATION; PAN TROGLODYTES; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT;

MAMMALIA; PAN TROGLODYTES; PRIMATES;

EID: 33244455058     PISSN: 07374038     EISSN: 15371719     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/molbev/msj060     Document Type: Article

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