Chapter 7 Genetically Unstable Microsatellite-Containing Loci and Genome Diversity in Clonally Reproduced Unisexual Vertebrates

International Review of Cell and Molecular Biology

Volumn 270, Issue C, 2008, Pages 319-349

  Ryskov, Alexei P ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF GENE BIOLOGY   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

Allelic variants; DNA fingerprinting; Genome diversity; Microsatellites; Mutations; PCR; Unisexual vertebrates

Indexed keywords

ALLOENZYME; MICROSATELLITE DNA; MITOCHONDRIAL DNA;

ALLELE; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; DNA FINGERPRINTING; DNA FLANKING REGION; ECOLOGY; FISH; GENE LOCUS; GENETIC POLYMORPHISM; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOME; GYNOGENESIS; LIZARD; MICROSATELLITE MARKER; MUTATION; NONHUMAN; PARTHENOGENESIS; POINT MUTATION; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; ANIMAL; GENETICS; MICROSATELLITE INSTABILITY; VERTEBRATE;

AMPHIBIA; PISCES; REPTILIA; SQUAMATA; VERTEBRATA;

ANIMALS; GENETIC VARIATION; GENOME; MICROSATELLITE INSTABILITY; PARTHENOGENESIS; VERTEBRATES;

EID: 57149098388     PISSN: 19376448     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1016/S1937-6448(08)01407-X     Document Type: Review

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