Linkage disequilibrium, mutational analysis and natural selection in the repetitive region of the clock gene, period, in Drosophila melanogaster

Genetical Research

Volumn 69, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 89-99

  Rosato, Ezio ^a   Peixoto, Alexandre A ^a,c   Costa, Rodolfo ^b   Kyriacou, Charalambos P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEICESTER   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SALENTO   (Italy)

^c BRANDEIS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GLYCINE; REPETITIVE DNA; THREONINE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL RHYTHM; DNA POLYMORPHISM; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; FEMALE; GENE LINKAGE DISEQUILIBRIUM; GENE MUTATION; MALE; MUTATION RATE; NATURAL SELECTION; NONHUMAN; PEDIGREE ANALYSIS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

ALLELES; ANIMALS; DNA MUTATIONAL ANALYSIS; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; DROSOPHILA PROTEINS; GENETIC LINKAGE; HAPLOTYPES; LINKAGE (GENETICS); LINKAGE DISEQUILIBRIUM; NUCLEAR PROTEINS; PERIOD CIRCADIAN PROTEINS; SELECTION (GENETICS); SELECTION, GENETIC;

ANIMALIA; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; MELANOGASTER;

EID: 0030737642     PISSN: 00166723     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S001667239700267X     Document Type: Article

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