Comparative primate genomics: Emerging patterns of genome content and dynamics

Nature Reviews Genetics

Volumn 15, Issue 5, 2014, Pages 347-359

  Rogers, Jeffrey ^a   Gibbs, Richard A ^a  

^a BAYLOR COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APE; COPY NUMBER VARIATION; DYNAMICS; GENE DELETION; GENE DUPLICATION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE INSERTION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC SIMILARITY; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOMICS; HUMAN GENOME; MACACA; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MULTIGENE FAMILY; NONHUMAN; PHYLOGENY; PRIMATE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW;

HOMINIDAE; MACACA; PRIMATES;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENETIC SPECIATION; GENETIC VARIATION; GENOME; GENOME, HUMAN; GENOMICS; HUMANS; PRIMATES;

EID: 84898808163     PISSN: 14710056     EISSN: 14710064     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrg3707     Document Type: Review

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