Chromosome size in diploid eukaryotic species centers on the average length with a conserved boundary

Molecular Biology and Evolution

Volumn 28, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 1901-1911

  Li, Xianran ^a   Zhu, Chengsong ^a   Lin, Zhongwei ^a   Wu, Yun ^a   Zhang, Dabao ^b   Bai, Guihua ^a,c   Song, Weixing ^a   Ma, Jianxin ^b   Muehlbauer, Gary J ^d   Scanlon, Michael J ^e   Zhang, Min ^b   Yu, Jianming ^a  

^a KANSAS STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c U S DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^e Department of Obstetrics Gynecology   (United States)

Author keywords

chromosome size; evolutionary modeling; genome evolution

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; AUTOSOME; CHROMOSOME SIZE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DIPLOIDY; EUKARYOTE; EUKARYOTE EVOLUTION; GENETIC CODE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOME SIZE; NONHUMAN; RECIPROCAL CHROMOSOME TRANSLOCATION;

ALGORITHMS; ANIMALS; CHROMOSOMES; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DIPLOIDY; EUKARYOTA; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENOME; HUMANS; MODELS, GENETIC; MODELS, STATISTICAL; REPETITIVE SEQUENCES, NUCLEIC ACID; TRANSLOCATION, GENETIC;

EUKARYOTA; PROTISTA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 79957502969     PISSN: 07374038     EISSN: 15371719     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/molbev/msr011     Document Type: Article

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