Where is the difference between the genomes of humans and annelids?

Genome Biology

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 2006, Pages

  Fedorov, Alexei ^a   Fedorova, Larisa ^a  

^a MEDICAL COLLEGE OF OHIO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALTERNATIVE RNA SPLICING; ANNELID WORM; EXON; GENE STRUCTURE; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENOME; HUMAN; INSECT; INTRON; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; NEMATODE; NONHUMAN; PHYLOGENETIC TREE; PHYLOGENY; SHORT SURVEY; VERTEBRATE; ANIMAL; GENETICS; REVIEW;

ANNELIDA; HEXAPODA; NEMATODA; PLATYNEREIS DUMERILII; SIPUNCULUS NUDUS; VERTEBRATA;

ANIMALS; ANNELIDA; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; EXONS; GENOME; GENOME, HUMAN; HUMANS; INTRONS;

EID: 33745905929     PISSN: 1474760X     EISSN: 1474760X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/gb-2006-7-1-203     Document Type: Short Survey

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