The rise, fall and renaissance of microsatellites in eukaryotic genomes

BioEssays

Volumn 28, Issue 10, 2006, Pages 1040-1050

  Buschiazzo, Emmanuel ^a   Gemmell, Neil J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CANTERBURY   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

EUKARYOTE; GENE MUTATION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENE STRUCTURE; GENETIC MARKER; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOME; GENOME ANALYSIS; HUMAN; LIFE CYCLE; MATURATION; MICROSATELLITE MARKER; MUTATION RATE; NONHUMAN; REVIEW; TANDEM REPEAT;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; EUKARYOTIC CELLS; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENOME; HUMANS; MICROSATELLITE REPEATS; MODELS, GENETIC; MUTATION; SELECTION (GENETICS);

EUKARYOTA;

EID: 33749991391     PISSN: 02659247     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/bies.20470     Document Type: Review

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