Evolution of bird genomes—a transposon's-eye view

Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

Volumn 1389, Issue 1, 2017, Pages 164-185

  Kapusta, Aurélie ^a   Suh, Alexander ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF UTAH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

bird; chromosome; endogenous virus; genome evolution; long read sequencing; transposable element

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BIRD; CHROMOSOME NUMBER; CYTOGENETICS; GENETIC STABILITY; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOME ANALYSIS; GENOME SIZE; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; NONHUMAN; PHYLOGENOMICS; RETROPOSON; TRANSPOSON; ANIMAL; EVOLUTION; GENETIC VARIATION; GENETICS; GENOME; GENOMICS; PHYLOGENY;

TRANSPOSON;

ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; BIRDS; DNA TRANSPOSABLE ELEMENTS; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENETIC VARIATION; GENOME; GENOMICS; PHYLOGENY;

EID: 85007360555     PISSN: 00778923     EISSN: 17496632     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/nyas.13295     Document Type: Article

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