Detecting heterozygosity in shotgun genome assemblies: Lessons from obligately outcrossing nematodes

Genome Research

Volumn 19, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 470-480

  Barrière, Antoine ^a   Yang, Shiaw Pyng ^b   Pekarek, Elizabeth ^a   Thomas, Cristel G ^c   Haag, Eric S ^c   Ruvinsky, Llya ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

^b WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GENOMIC DNA;

ALLELE; ARTICLE; CAENORHABDITIS; CAENORHABDITIS BRENNERI; CAENORHABDITIS BRIGGSAE; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CAENORHABDITIS JAPONICA; CAENORHABDITIS REMANEI; CHROMOSOME; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOME; HERMAPHRODITISM; HETEROZYGOSITY; INBREEDING; MATING; NEMATODE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPECIES IDENTIFICATION;

ALLELES; ANIMALS; CHROMOSOME MAPPING; CROSSES, GENETIC; FEMALE; GENOME, HELMINTH; HERMAPHRODITISM; HETEROZYGOTE; HETEROZYGOTE DETECTION; INBREEDING; NEMATODA; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

CAENORHABDITIS; CAENORHABDITIS BRIGGSAE; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CAENORHABDITIS JAPONICA; CAENORHABDITIS REMANEI; NEMATODA;

EID: 61849109937     PISSN: 10889051     EISSN: 15495469     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1101/gr.081851.108     Document Type: Article

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