Natural selection and the frequency distributions of 'silent' DNA polymorphism in Drosophila

Genetics

Volumn 146, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 295-307

  Akashi, Hiroshi ^a   Schaeffer, Stephen W ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; DNA POLYMORPHISM; DROSOPHILA; EVOLUTION; GENE FREQUENCY; MUTATION RATE; NATURAL SELECTION; NONHUMAN; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ANIMALS; CODON; DNA; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; MODELS, GENETIC; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; POLYMORPHISM, GENETIC; SELECTION (GENETICS);

EID: 0030903283     PISSN: 00166731     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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