The where and wherefore of evolutionary breakpoints

Journal of Biology

Volumn 8, Issue 7, 2009, Pages

  Sankoff, David ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHROMOSOME; CYTOGENETICS; EPIGENETICS; GENE SEQUENCE; GENOME; GENOMICS; MEIOSIS; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SHORT SURVEY; ANIMAL; GENETIC EPIGENESIS; GENETICS; HUMAN; INTERSPERSED REPEAT; REVIEW; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SPECIES DIFFERENCE;

DNA;

ANIMALS; DNA; EPIGENESIS, GENETIC; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; HUMANS; INTERSPERSED REPETITIVE SEQUENCES; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, NUCLEIC ACID; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

EID: 69049115221     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14754924     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/jbiol162     Document Type: Short Survey

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