Comparative primate genomics: The year of the chimpanzee

Current Opinion in Genetics and Development

Volumn 14, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 650-656

  Ruvolo, Maryellen ^a  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPLEMENTARY DNA;

CHIMPANZEE; CHROMOSOME 22; DNA SEQUENCE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENOME; GENOMICS; HUMAN; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SPECIES DIFFERENTIATION;

ANIMALS; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENES, REGULATOR; GENOME; HUMANS; PAN TROGLODYTES; SELECTION (GENETICS);

MAMMALIA; PAN (APE); PAN TROGLODYTES; PRIMATES;

EID: 8644260838     PISSN: 0959437X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.gde.2004.08.007     Document Type: Review

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