The footprint of metabolism in the organization of mammalian genomes

<p>Abstract</p> <p>Background</p> <p>At present five evolutionary hypotheses have been proposed to explain the great variability of the genomic GC content among and within genomes: the mutational bias, the biased gene conversion, the DNA breakpoints distribution, the th...

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Main Authors: Berná Luisa, Chaurasia Ankita, Angelini Claudia, Federico Concetta, Saccone Salvatore, D'Onofrio Giuseppe
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2012-05-01
Series:BMC Genomics
Online Access:http://www.biomedcentral.com/1471-2164/13/174