Interstitial telomeric sequences (ITSs) are not located at the exact evolutionary breakpoints in primates

Cytogenetic and Genome Research

Volumn 124, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 128-131

  Farre M ^a,b   Ponsa M ^a   Bosch, M ^b  

^a UNIVERSITAT AUTÒNOMA DE BARCELONA   (Spain)

^b IRTA   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA;

ARTICLE; CHIMPANZEE; CHROMOSOME 1; CHROMOSOME 10; CHROMOSOME 11; CHROMOSOME 12; CHROMOSOME 16; CHROMOSOME 17; CHROMOSOME 4; CHROMOSOME 5; CHROMOSOME 7; CHROMOSOME 9; CHROMOSOME BREAKAGE; CHROMOSOME INVERSION; CHROMOSOME SIZE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA FLANKING REGION; DNA REPAIR; DNA SEQUENCE; DNA STRAND BREAKAGE; HUMAN; HUMAN VERSUS ANIMAL COMPARISON; INTERSTITIAL TELOMERIC SEQUENCE; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; NONHUMAN; PRIMATE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RHESUS MONKEY; SPECIES COMPARISON; TELOMERE; ANIMAL; GENETICS; HUMAN CHROMOSOME; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE;

MACACA MULATTA; PAN; PRIMATES;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CHROMOSOME BREAKAGE; CHROMOSOMES, HUMAN; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; HUMANS; PRIMATES; TELOMERE;

EID: 65649090926     PISSN: 14248581     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000207517     Document Type: Article

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