Computational approaches to unveiling ancient genome duplications

Nature Reviews Genetics

Volumn 5, Issue 10, 2004, Pages 752-763

  Van De Peer, Yves ^a  

^a DEPARTMENT OF PLANT SYSTEMS BIOLOGY   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGE DETERMINATION; AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; CALCULATION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; EVOLUTION; GENE DUPLICATION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENOME; NONHUMAN; NUCLEIC ACID BASE SUBSTITUTION; PHYLOGENY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY;

COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENE DUPLICATION; GENOME; MULTIGENE FAMILY; PHYLOGENY; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

EID: 5044230820     PISSN: 14710056     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrg1449     Document Type: Review

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