A platypus' eye view of the mammalian genome

Current Opinion in Genetics and Development

Volumn 14, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 642-649

  Grützner, Frank ^a   Graves, Jennifer A Marshall ^a  

^a AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC ORGANIZATION; GENETIC TRAIT; GENOME; GENOME IMPRINTING; MAMMALIAN GENETICS; MONOTREMATE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; PLATYPUS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SEX CHROMOSOME; X CHROMOSOME INACTIVATION;

ANIMALS; EVOLUTION; GENOME; GENOMIC IMPRINTING; PLATYPUS; SEX CHROMOSOMES;

ANIMALIA; MAMMALIA; MONOTREMATA;

EID: 8644234206     PISSN: 0959437X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.gde.2004.09.006     Document Type: Review

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