The genome sequence of a widespread apex predator, the golden eagle (Aquila chrysaetos)

PLoS ONE

Volumn 9, Issue 4, 2014, Pages

  Doyle, Jacqueline M ^a   Katzner, Todd E ^c,d   Bloom, Peter H ^e   Ji, Yanzhu ^a   Wijayawardena, Bhagya K ^a,b   DeWoody, J Andrew ^a,b  

^a Department of Forestry and Natural Resources Purdue University ^*  (United States)

^b PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c WEST VIRGINIA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d USDA FOREST SERVICE   (United States)

^e Western Foundation of Vertebrate Zoology   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA; TRANSPOSON;

AQUILA CHRYSAETOS; ARTICLE; BEAK; COLOR VISION; DNA POLYMORPHISM; EAGLE; GENE LIBRARY; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC TRAIT; LONG INTERSPERSED REPEAT; LONG TERMINAL REPEAT; LONG TERMINAL REPEAT RETROTRANSPOSON; MALE; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NISAETUS NIPALENSIS; NONHUMAN; NORTH AMERICA; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POPULATION ABUNDANCE; SHORT INTERSPERSED REPEAT; TRANSPOSON; ANIMAL; GENETICS; GENOME;

ANIMALS; DNA TRANSPOSABLE ELEMENTS; EAGLES; GENOME; MALE; NORTH AMERICA;

EID: 84899762926     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0095599     Document Type: Article

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