Evolutionary divergence of the pre-promotor region of ribosomal DNA in the great apes

DNA Sequence - Journal of DNA Sequencing and Mapping

Volumn 17, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 378-391

  Netchvolodov, Kirill K ^a   Boiko, Anastasia V ^a   Ryskov, Alexei P ^a   Kupriyanova, Natalia S ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF GENE BIOLOGY   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

Enhancers; Evolution; Great apes; MARs SARs; Ribosomal intergenic spacer; Tandem arrays

Indexed keywords

RIBOSOME DNA; RIBOSOME RNA; SPACER DNA;

APE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE AMPLIFICATION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC ANALYSIS; MOLECULAR CLONING; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE REPEAT; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; ORTHOLOGY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; DNA, RIBOSOMAL; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GORILLA GORILLA; HOMINIDAE; HUMANS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PAN PANISCUS; PAN TROGLODYTES; PONGO PYGMAEUS; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS);

GORILLA GORILLA; HOMINIDAE; PAN PANISCUS; PAN TROGLODYTES; PONGO PYGMAEUS; PRIMATES; RATTUS; XENOPUS LAEVIS;

EID: 33847220394     PISSN: 10425179     EISSN: 10292365     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10425170600752643     Document Type: Article

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