Support for multiple classes of local expression clusters in Drosophila melanogaster, but no evidence for gene order conservation

Genome Biology

Volumn 12, Issue 3, 2011, Pages

  Weber, Claudia C ^a   Hurst, Laurence D ^a  

^a University of Bath   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHROMATIN; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; GENE CLUSTER; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE ORDER; GENE REARRANGEMENT; GENETIC CONSERVATION; GENETIC DISTANCE; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; HOUSEKEEPING GENE; SYNTENY; YEAST; ANIMAL; ESSENTIAL GENE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MULTIGENE FAMILY; PHYLOGENY;

DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; EUKARYOTA; MAMMALIA;

ANIMALS; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE ORDER; GENE REARRANGEMENT; GENES, ESSENTIAL; MULTIGENE FAMILY; PHYLOGENY; RECOMBINATION, GENETIC; SYNTENY;

EID: 79952698915     PISSN: 14747596     EISSN: 1474760X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/gb-2011-12-3-r23     Document Type: Article

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