Large synteny blocks revealed between Caenorhabditis elegans and Caenorhabditis briggsae genomes using OrthoCluster

BMC Genomics

Volumn 11, Issue 1, 2010, Pages

  Vergara, Ismael A ^a   Chen, Nansheng ^a  

^a SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ARTICLE; BASE MISPAIRING; CAENORHABDITIS; CAENORHABDITIS BRIGGSAE; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CHROMOSOME 5; CHROMOSOME ANALYSIS; CHROMOSOME MAP; CHROMOSOME SIZE; COMPUTER PROGRAM; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENETIC DATABASE; GENETIC MODEL; GENOMICS; NONHUMAN; ORTHOLOGY; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SPECIES COMPARISON; SYNTENY; X CHROMOSOME; ANIMAL; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BIOLOGY; GENE; GENETICS; GENOME; METHODOLOGY; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPERON;

CAENORHABDITIS BRIGGSAE; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS;

ANIMALS; CAENORHABDITIS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; CONSERVED SEQUENCE; GENES, HELMINTH; GENOME, HELMINTH; MODELS, GENETIC; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE ANNOTATION; OPERON; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, NUCLEIC ACID; SOFTWARE; SYNTENY;

EID: 77956926876     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712164     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2164-11-516     Document Type: Article

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