New resources inform study of genome size, content, and organization in nonavian reptiles

Integrative and Comparative Biology

Volumn 48, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 447-453

  Janes, Daniel E ^a   Organ, Christopher ^a   Valenzuela, Nicole ^b  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALLIGATOR; ALLIGATOR MISSISSIPPIENSIS; ANOLIS CAROLINENSIS; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CHRYSEMYS; CHRYSEMYS PICTA; REPTILIA; SPHENODON PUNCTATUS; TESTUDINES; THAMNOPHIS; THAMNOPHIS SIRTALIS;

EID: 53549131253     PISSN: 15407063     EISSN: 15577023     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/icb/icn010     Document Type: Article

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