Satellite DNA evolution

Genome Dynamics

Volumn 7, Issue , 2012, Pages 126-152

  Plohl, M ^a,b   Mestrovic N ^a   Mravinac, B ^a  

^a RUDER BO KOVI INSTITUTE   (Croatia)

^b Department of Molecular Biology ^*  (Croatia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CENTROMERE PROTEIN A; CENTROMERE PROTEIN B; HISTONE H3; MONOMER; SATELLITE DNA;

ARTICLE; CENTROMERE; CHROMOSOME 17; CHROMOSOME 6; CHROMOSOME SEGREGATION; DNA HELIX; DNA HISTONE INTERACTION; DNA HYBRIDIZATION; DNA LIBRARY; DNA MICROARRAY; DNA POLYMORPHISM; DNA PROTEIN COMPLEX; DNA SEQUENCE; DNA STRUCTURE; DNA TRANSPOSITION; DROSOPHILA; EUKARYOTE; GENE AMPLIFICATION; GENE CONVERSION; GENE DOSAGE; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOME ANALYSIS; HETEROCHROMATIN; HUMAN; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MUTATION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE REPEAT; POPULATION GENETIC PARAMETERS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROPOSON; TANDEM REPEAT; X CHROMOSOME; ANIMAL; COPY NUMBER VARIATION; EVOLUTION; GENE LIBRARY; GENETICS; GENOME; PHYLOGENY; PRIMATE; REVIEW; SPECIES DIFFERENCE;

EUKARYOTA;

ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; CENTROMERE; DNA COPY NUMBER VARIATIONS; DNA, SATELLITE; GENE DOSAGE; GENE LIBRARY; GENETIC VARIATION; GENOME; HUMANS; PHYLOGENY; PRIMATES; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

EID: 84866436359     PISSN: 16609263     EISSN: 16623797     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1159/000337122     Document Type: Article

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