Extensive analysis of EST sequences reveals that all cichlid species in Lake Victoria share almost identical transcript sets

Gene

Volumn 441, Issue 1-2, 2009, Pages 187-191

  Kobayashi, Naoki ^a   Watanabe, Masakatsu ^a   Horiike, Tokumasa ^b   Kohara, Yuji ^b   Okada, Norihiro ^a  

^a TOKYO INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF GENETICS   (Japan)

Author keywords

Comparative analysis; Evolution; Genetic distance; Genetic polymorphism; Jaw

Indexed keywords

AFRICA; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CICHLID; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXPRESSED SEQUENCE TAG; FISH GENETICS; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC CODE; GENETIC DISTANCE; GENETIC POLYMORPHISM; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPECIES COMPARISON; SPECIES DIVERSITY; UNINDEXED SEQUENCE;

ANIMALS; CICHLIDS; ECOSYSTEM; EXPRESSED SEQUENCE TAGS; JAW; PHYLOGENY; POLYMORPHISM, GENETIC; ZIMBABWE;

CICHLIDAE; HAPLOCHROMIS CHILOTES;

EID: 67349104872     PISSN: 03781119     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.gene.2008.11.023     Document Type: Article

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