A test for the role of natural selection in the stabilization of transposable element copy number in a population of Drosophila melanogaster

Genetical Research

Volumn 49, Issue 1, 1987, Pages 31-41

  Montgomery, Elizabeth ^a   Charlesworth, Brian ^b   Langley, Charles H ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH SCIENCES   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CHROMOSOME; CHROMOSOME INVERSION; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; GENETIC SELECTION; GENETICS; NUCLEIC ACID HYBRIDIZATION; TRANSPOSON; X CHROMOSOME;

ANIMAL; CHROMOSOMES; DNA TRANSPOSABLE ELEMENTS; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; INVERSION (GENETICS); MODELS, GENETIC; NUCLEIC ACID HYBRIDIZATION; SELECTION (GENETICS); SUPPORT, NON-U.S. GOV'T; SUPPORT, U.S. GOV'T, NON-P.H.S.; X CHROMOSOME;

EID: 0023284059     PISSN: 00166723     EISSN: 14695073     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0016672300026707     Document Type: Article

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