Evolutionary consequences of DNA methylation on the GC content in vertebrate genomes

G3: Genes, Genomes, Genetics

Volumn 5, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 441-447

  Mugal, Carina F ^a   Arndt, Peter F ^b   Holm, Lena ^c   Ellegren, Hans ^a  

^a UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR MOLECULAR GENETICS   (Germany)

^c SWEDISH UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES   (Sweden)

Author keywords

CpG hypermutability; DNA methylation; GC content; GC isochores; GC biased gene conversion

Indexed keywords

DINUCLEOTIDE; NUCLEOTIDE;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CHICKEN; CHROMOSOME; DNA BASE COMPOSITION; DNA METHYLATION; DOUBLE STRANDED DNA BREAK; GENE CONVERSION; GENE MAPPING; GENOME; HUMAN; MALE; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; NONHUMAN; SEMEN ANALYSIS; SPERM; VERTEBRATE; ANIMAL; HUMAN GENOME;

AVES; MAMMALIA; VERTEBRATA;

ANIMALS; BASE COMPOSITION; CHICKENS; DNA METHYLATION; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENOME, HUMAN; HUMANS;

EID: 84924658469     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21601836     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1534/g3.114.015545     Document Type: Article

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