Marsupials and monotremes sort genome treasures from junk

Genome Biology

Volumn 6, Issue 5, 2005, Pages

  Wakefield, Matthew J ^a   Graves, Jennifer A M ^b  

^a Biology and Environment   (Australia)

^b AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPARATIVE STUDY; GENE MUTATION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC REGULATION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOMICS; HUMAN; MARSUPIAL; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MONOTREMATE; NONHUMAN; SHORT SURVEY;

ANIMALS; EVOLUTION; GENOMICS; MAMMALS; MARSUPIALIA; MONOTREMATA; PHYLOGENY; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

EID: 33744637091     PISSN: 14656906     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/gb-2005-6-5-218     Document Type: Short Survey

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