High diversity at PRDM9 in chimpanzees and bonobos

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 7, 2012, Pages

  Groeneveld, Linn Fenna ^a,d   Atencia, Rebeca ^b   Garriga, Rosa M ^c   Vigilant, Linda ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR EVOLUTIONARY ANTHROPOLOGY   (Germany)

^b The Jane Goodall Institute   (United States)

^c Tacugama Chimpanzee Sanctuary ^*  (Sierra Leone)

^d UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ZINC FINGER PROTEIN; HISTONE LYSINE METHYLTRANSFERASE;

3' UNTRANSLATED REGION; 5' UNTRANSLATED REGION; ALPHA HELIX; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; BINDING SITE; CHIMPANZEE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA BINDING; DNA SEQUENCE; GENE; GENE FREQUENCY; GENE LOCUS; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HUMAN; HUMAN VERSUS ANIMAL COMPARISON; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PAN PANISCUS; PAN TROGLODYTES; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRDM9 GENE; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; ZINC FINGER MOTIF; ALLELE; ANIMAL; CHIMERA; FEMALE; GENETICS; INFERTILITY; MALE;

MAMMALIA; PAN; PAN PANISCUS;

ALLELES; ANIMALS; CHIMERA; FEMALE; GENETIC LOCI; GENETIC VARIATION; HISTONE-LYSINE N-METHYLTRANSFERASE; INFERTILITY; MALE; PAN PANISCUS; PAN TROGLODYTES; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

EID: 84863609983     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0039064     Document Type: Article

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