Highly efficient concerted evolution in the ribosomal DNA repeats: Total rDNA repeat variation revealed by whole-genome shotgun sequence data

Genome Research

Volumn 17, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 184-191

  Ganley, Austen R D ^a,c,d   Kobayashi, Takehiko ^a,b,d  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR BASIC BIOLOGY   (Japan)

^b GRADUATE UNIVERSITY FOR ADVANCED STUDIES   (Japan)

^c DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF GENETICS   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RIBOSOME DNA;

ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; EVOLUTION; FUNGUS; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC POLYMORPHISM; GENETIC VARIABILITY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ASPERGILLUS NIDULANS; CRYPTOCOCCUS NEOFORMANS; DNA, FUNGAL; DNA, RIBOSOMAL; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; FUNGI; GENOME, FUNGAL; MODELS, GENETIC; MUTATION; POLYMORPHISM, GENETIC; REPETITIVE SEQUENCES, NUCLEIC ACID; SACCHAROMYCES; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SACCHAROMYCETALES; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; VARIATION (GENETICS);

EID: 33846880495     PISSN: 10889051     EISSN: 15495469     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1101/gr.5457707     Document Type: Article

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