Compositional patterns in vertebrate genomes: Conservation and change in evolution

Journal of Molecular Evolution

Volumn 28, Issue 1-2, 1988, Pages 7-18

  Bernardi, Giorgio ^a   Mouchiroud, Dominique ^b   Gautier, Christian ^b   Bernardi, Giacomo ^a  

^a INSTITUT JACQUES MONOD   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ LYON 1   (France)

Author keywords

Compositional patterns; Compositional shifts; Genome evolution; Isochores; Neutral theory; Selection; Vertebrates

Indexed keywords

EVOLUTION; GENETIC CONSERVATION; GENETIC SELECTION; GENOME; NONHUMAN; THEORETICAL STUDY; VERTEBRATE;

ANIMAL; BASE COMPOSITION; CODON; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DNA; EVOLUTION; MAMMALS; MODELS, GENETIC; MUTATION; SELECTION (GENETICS); SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, NUCLEIC ACID; VERTEBRATES;

EID: 0024245155     PISSN: 00222844     EISSN: 14321432     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF02143493     Document Type: Article

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