The opossum genome: Insights and opportunities from an alternative mammal

Genome Research

Volumn 18, Issue 8, 2008, Pages 1199-1215

  Samollow, Paul B ^a,b  

^a TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; EVOLUTION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENE STRUCTURE; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC CODE; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; GENOME SIZE; IMMUNE SYSTEM; IMMUNOGENETICS; MAMMAL; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPOSSUM; PHYLOGENY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPRODUCTION; REVIEW; X CHROMOSOME;

ANIMALS; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENOMIC IMPRINTING; GENOMICS; IMMUNITY; NERVOUS SYSTEM; OPOSSUMS; PROTEINS; RECOMBINATION, GENETIC; RETROELEMENTS; X CHROMOSOME INACTIVATION;

DIDELPHIDAE; EUTHERIA; MAMMALIA; METATHERIA; MONODELPHIS DOMESTICA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 48949083592     PISSN: 10889051     EISSN: 15495469     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1101/gr.065326.107     Document Type: Review

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