Isochore structures in the chicken genome

FEBS Journal

Volumn 273, Issue 8, 2006, Pages 1637-1648

  Gao, Feng ^a   Zhang, Chun Ting ^a  

^a TIANJIN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Compositional homogeneity; Compositional segmentation; Gallus gallus; Isochores; Windowless technique

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; CHICKEN; CPG ISLAND; DNA SEQUENCE; DNA STRUCTURE; GENE FUNCTION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENE STRUCTURE; GENETIC ALGORITHM; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENOME; GENOME ANALYSIS; ISOCHORE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN CONTENT;

ALGORITHMS; ANIMALS; BASE COMPOSITION; CHICKENS; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; DNA; GC RICH SEQUENCE; GENOME; ISOCHORES;

EUKARYOTA; GALLUS GALLUS;

EID: 33646886862     PISSN: 1742464X     EISSN: 17424658     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1742-4658.2006.05178.x     Document Type: Article

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