Widespread ultraconservation divergence in primates

Molecular Biology and Evolution

Volumn 25, Issue 8, 2008, Pages 1668-1676

  Ovcharenko, Ivan ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

Comparative genomics; Evolution; Gene regulation; Ultraconservation

Indexed keywords

DNA;

ARTICLE; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM; CHIMPANZEE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE MUTATION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOME ANALYSIS; HUMAN; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; NONHUMAN; POPULATION GENETICS; PRIMATE; RHESUS MONKEY; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; TISSUE SPECIFICITY;

ANIMALS; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; CONSERVED SEQUENCE; DATABASES, GENETIC; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENETICS, POPULATION; HUMANS; MACACA MULATTA; MODELS, GENETIC; PAN TROGLODYTES; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; VARIATION (GENETICS);

HOMO; MACACA MULATTA; PAN; PRIMATES; RODENTIA;

EID: 47649125626     PISSN: 07374038     EISSN: 15371719     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/molbev/msn116     Document Type: Article

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