A guided tour of large genome size in animals: What we know and where we are heading

Chromosome Research

Volumn 19, Issue 7, 2011, Pages 925-938

  Dufresne, France ^a   Jeffery, Nicholas ^b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DU QUÉBEC À RIMOUSKI   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GUELPH   (Canada)

Author keywords

cell size; Genome size; large genomes; next generation sequencing; transposable element

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL GENETICS; ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DNA CONTENT; DNA SEQUENCE; GENE STRUCTURE; GENOME SIZE; HAPLOIDY; HUMAN; NONHUMAN; OBESITY; PHENOTYPE; PHYLOGENY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SPECIES DIVERSITY;

ADAPTATION, BIOLOGICAL; ANIMALS; DATABASES, GENETIC; DNA TRANSPOSABLE ELEMENTS; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENOME; GENOME SIZE; GENOMICS; HIGH-THROUGHPUT NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCING; HUMANS; PHYLOGENY; REPETITIVE SEQUENCES, NUCLEIC ACID;

ACTINOPTERYGII; AMPHIBIA; ANIMALIA; CHONDRICHTHYES; CRUSTACEA; INVERTEBRATA; ORTHOPTERA; PLATYHELMINTHES; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 82955247979     PISSN: 09673849     EISSN: 15736849     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10577-011-9248-x     Document Type: Article

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