Sequencing and genomic annotation of the chicken (Gallus gallus) Hox clusters, and mapping of evolutionarily conserved regions

Cytogenetic and Genome Research

Volumn 117, Issue 1-4, 2007, Pages 110-119

  Richardson, M K ^a   Crooijmans, R P M A ^b   Groenen, M A M ^b  

^a LEIDEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HOX PROTEIN; MICRORNA;

ARTICLE; CHICKEN; CONTROLLED STUDY; EVOLUTION; GENE MAPPING; GENE SEQUENCE; HOX GENE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; UNINDEXED SEQUENCE;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CHICKENS; CHROMOSOME MAPPING; CONSERVED SEQUENCE; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; EXONS; GENOME; GENOMICS; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEINS; HUMANS; INTRONS; MULTIGENE FAMILY; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, NUCLEIC ACID;

GALLUS GALLUS;

EID: 34547613188     PISSN: 14248581     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000103171     Document Type: Article

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