Correlated rates of synonymous site evolution across plant genomes

Molecular Biology and Evolution

Volumn 14, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 455-460

  Eyre Walker, Adam ^a,b   Gaut, Brandon S ^a,c  

^a RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SUSSEX   (United Kingdom)

^c RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

chloroplast DNA; grasses; mitochondrial DNA; nuclear DNA; palms; synonymous substitution

Indexed keywords

COMPLEMENTARY DNA; DNA;

ARTICLE; CELL NUCLEUS; DNA SEQUENCE; EVOLUTION; GENE LOCUS; GENOME; MITOCHONDRION; NONHUMAN; PLANT; RNA SEQUENCE; TAXONOMY;

ANIMALIA; POACEAE;

EID: 0030888864     PISSN: 07374038     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/oxfordjournals.molbev.a025781     Document Type: Article

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