The estimation of the number and the length distribution of gene conversion tracts from population DNA sequence data

Genetics

Volumn 146, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 89-99

  Betrán, Esther ^a   Rozas, Julio ^b   Navarro, Arcadio ^a   Barbadilla, Antonio ^a  

^a UNIVERSITAT AUTÒNOMA DE BARCELONA   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; DNA SEQUENCE; DROSOPHILA; GENE CONVERSION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE TRANSFER; GENETIC VARIABILITY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; DNA; DROSOPHILA; DROSOPHILA PROTEINS; GENE CONVERSION; INSECT PROTEINS; MODELS, GENETIC; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; POLYMORPHISM, GENETIC; RIBOSOMAL PROTEINS;

EID: 0030902601     PISSN: 00166731     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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