Thermal Stability of Human DNA and Chimpanzee DNA Heteroduplexes
- 19 November 1976
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in Science
- Vol. 194 (4267) , 846-848
- https://doi.org/10.1126/science.982047
Abstract
The base pairing fidelity of heteroduplexes formed from human DNA and chimpanzee DNA has been studied by the criterion of thermal stability to test the evolutionary conservation of repeated DNA base sequences.Keywords
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