The other side of comparative genomics: Genes with no orthologs between the cow and other mammalian species

BMC Genomics

Volumn 10, Issue , 2009, Pages

  Mazza, Raffaele ^a   Strozzi, Francesco ^b   Caprera, Andrea ^b   Ajmone Marsan, Paolo ^a   Williams, John L ^b  

^a UNIVERSITÀ CATTOLICA DEL SACRO CUORE   (Italy)

^b PARCO TECNOLOGICO PADANO   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPUTER MODEL; CONTROLLED STUDY; COW; FUNCTIONAL GENOMICS; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENE STRUCTURE; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENOME; GENOMICS; HUMAN; HUMAN VERSUS ANIMAL COMPARISON; MAMMAL; NONHUMAN; ORTHOLOGY; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; ANIMAL; BIOLOGY; CATTLE; COMPARATIVE GENOMIC HYBRIDIZATION; DNA SEQUENCE; DOG; GENE LIBRARY; GENETICS; HUMAN GENOME; METHODOLOGY; MOUSE; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT;

BOVINAE; MAMMALIA;

ANIMALS; CATTLE; COMPARATIVE GENOMIC HYBRIDIZATION; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; DOGS; GENOME, HUMAN; GENOMIC LIBRARY; GENOMICS; HUMANS; MICE; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

EID: 74549203186     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712164     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2164-10-604     Document Type: Article

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