Utility of sequenced genomes for microsatellite marker development in non-model organisms: A case study of functionally important genes in nine-spined sticklebacks (Pungitius pungitius)

BMC Genomics

Volumn 11, Issue 1, 2010, Pages

  Shikano, Takahito ^a   Ramadevi, Jetty ^a,b   Shimada, Yukinori ^a   Merilä, Juha ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HYDERABAD   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DINUCLEOTIDE REPEAT; DNA LIBRARY; FISH; FUNCTIONAL GENOMICS; GASTEROSTEUS ACULEATUS; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE FUNCTION; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENE LOCATION; GENE MAPPING; GENE SEQUENCE; GENE TARGETING; GENETIC POLYMORPHISM; GENETIC VARIABILITY; MICROSATELLITE MARKER; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHENOTYPE; PUNGITIUS PUNGITIUS; SIMPLE SEQUENCE REPEAT; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; TRINUCLEOTIDE REPEAT; ANIMAL; DNA SEQUENCE; EXPRESSED SEQUENCE TAG; GENETICS; GENOME; HUMAN; SMEGMAMORPHA;

GASTEROSTEUS ACULEATUS; PUNGITIUS PUNGITIUS;

MICROSATELLITE DNA;

ANIMALS; CONSERVED SEQUENCE; EXPRESSED SEQUENCE TAGS; GENOME; HUMANS; MICROSATELLITE REPEATS; POLYMORPHISM, GENETIC; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SMEGMAMORPHA; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

EID: 77952690602     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712164     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2164-11-334     Document Type: Article

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