Synonymous substitutions in the Xdh gene of Drosophila: Heterogeneous distribution along the coding region

Genetics

Volumn 144, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 1053-1062

  Comeron, Josep M ^a   Aguadé, Montserrat ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; ARTICLE; DROSOPHILA; GENE REARRANGEMENT; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC SELECTION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPECIES DIFFERENTIATION;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CODON; DNA; DROSOPHILA; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; XANTHINE DEHYDROGENASE;

DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; DROSOPHILA PSEUDOOBSCURA; DROSOPHILA SUBOBSCURA; MELANOGASTER;

EID: 0029914165     PISSN: 00166731     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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