A comparative study and a phylogenetic exploration of the compositional architectures of mammalian nuclear genomes.

For the past four decades the compositional organization of the mammalian genome posed a formidable challenge to molecular evolutionists attempting to explain it from an evolutionary perspective. Unfortunately, most of the explanations adhered to the "isochore theory," which has long been...

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Main Authors: Eran Elhaik, Dan Graur
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2014-11-01
Series:PLoS Computational Biology
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC4222635?pdf=render