Molecular evolution between Drosophila melanogaster and D. simulans: Reduced codon bias, faster rates of amino acid substitution, and larger proteins in D. melanogaster

Genetics

Volumn 144, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 1297-1307

  Akashi, Hiroshi ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DROSOPHILA; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; GENE DELETION; GENE INSERTION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; MUTATION RATE; NATURAL SELECTION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPECIES DIFFERENTIATION;

AMINO ACIDS; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CODON; DNA; DROSOPHILA; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; MODELS, GENETIC; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; POLYMORPHISM, GENETIC; PROTEINS;

DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; DROSOPHILA SIMULANS; MELANOGASTER;

EID: 0029985179     PISSN: 00166731     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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