The evolutionary origin of man can be traced in the layers of defunct ancestral alpha satellites flanking the active centromeres of human chromosomes

PLoS Genetics

Volumn 5, Issue 9, 2009, Pages

  Shepelev, Valery A ^a   Alexandrov, Alexander A ^a   Yurov, Yuri B ^b   Alexandrov, Ivan A ^b  

^a INSTITUTE OF MOLECULAR GENETICS   (Russian Federation)

^b MENTAL HEALTH RESEARCH CENTER   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CENTROMERE; CHROMOSOME 17; CHROMOSOME 8; CHROMOSOME STRUCTURE; CLADISTICS; EVOLUTION; HUMAN; PHYLOGENY; X CHROMOSOME; ANIMAL; CLASSIFICATION; GENETICS; HUMAN CHROMOSOME; MALE; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MOLECULAR GENETICS; PRIMATE;

PRIMATES;

SATELLITE DNA;

ANIMALS; CENTROMERE; CHROMOSOMES, HUMAN; DNA, SATELLITE; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; HUMANS; MALE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; PRIMATES;

EID: 70349694121     PISSN: 15537390     EISSN: 15537404     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1000641     Document Type: Article

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