Deciphering heterogeneity in pig genome assembly sscrofa9 by isochore and isochore-like region analyses

PLoS ONE

Volumn 5, Issue 10, 2010, Pages

  Zhang, Wenqian ^a   Wu, Wenwu ^a   Lin, Wenchao ^a   Zhou, Pengfang ^a   Dai, Li ^a   Zhang, Yang ^a   Huang, Jingfei ^b   Zhang, Deli ^a  

^a NORTHWEST A F UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b KUNMING INSTITUTE OF ZOOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHROMATIN STRUCTURE; CHROMOSOME STRUCTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA BASE COMPOSITION; GENE LOCATION; GENETIC HETEROGENEITY; GENOME ANALYSIS; GENOME SIZE; HUMAN GENOME; HUMAN VERSUS ANIMAL COMPARISON; ISOCHORE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE REPEAT; SWINE; ANIMAL; CHROMOSOME MAP; GENETICS; GENOME;

EUKARYOTA; SUIDAE;

ANIMALS; CHROMOSOME MAPPING; GENOME; SWINE;

EID: 78149435369     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0013303     Document Type: Article

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