Length variation of CAG/CAA trinucleotide repeats in natural populations of Drosophila melanogaster and its relation to the recombination rate

Genetics

Volumn 143, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 1713-1725

  Michalakis, Yannis ^a   Veuille, Michel ^a,b  

^a SORBONNE UNIVERSITÉ   (France)

^b Laboratoire d'Ecologie   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA; TRINUCLEOTIDE;

CHROMOSOME 2; CODON; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; GENE LINKAGE DISEQUILIBRIUM; GENE LOCUS; GENETIC DISTANCE; GENETIC POLYMORPHISM; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; GENETIC SELECTION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HETEROZYGOSITY; NATURAL POPULATION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE REPEAT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; TANDEM REPEAT;

ALLELES; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; DNA PRIMERS; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; FEMALE; GENES, INSECT; GENETICS, POPULATION; LINKAGE DISEQUILIBRIUM; MALE; MINISATELLITE REPEATS; MODELS, GENETIC; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; POLYMORPHISM, GENETIC; RECOMBINATION, GENETIC; SELECTION (GENETICS); TRINUCLEOTIDE REPEATS; VARIATION (GENETICS);

DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; MELANOGASTER;

EID: 0029820766     PISSN: 00166731     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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