A comparative analysis of numt evolution in human and chimpanzee

Molecular Biology and Evolution

Volumn 24, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 13-18

  Hazkani Covo, Einat ^a,c   Graur, Dan ^a,b  

^a TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^b University of Houston   (United States)

^c NATIONAL EVOLUTIONARY SYNTHESIS CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Chimpanzee genome; Comparative evolution; Genome evolution; Human genome; Mitochondrial DNA; Numts; Promiscuous DNA; Pseudogenes

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHIMPANZEE; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; EVOLUTION; GENE DELETION; GENE INSERTION; HUMAN; NONHUMAN;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; DNA, MITOCHONDRIAL; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENOME; GENOME, HUMAN; HUMANS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PAN TROGLODYTES; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT;

HOMO; PAN; PAN TROGLODYTES;

EID: 33845907665     PISSN: 07374038     EISSN: 15371719     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/molbev/msl149     Document Type: Article

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