Divergence of the yellow gene between Drosophila melanogaster and D. subobscura: Recombination rate, codon bias and synonymous substitutions

Genetics

Volumn 147, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 165-175

  Munté, Agustí ^a   Aguadé, Montserrat ^a   Segarra, Carmen ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; GENE MAPPING; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; TELOMERE; X CHROMOSOME;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CHROMOSOME MAPPING; CLONING, MOLECULAR; CODON; CONSERVED SEQUENCE; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; DROSOPHILA; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; DROSOPHILA PROTEINS; GENES, INSECT; INSECT PROTEINS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; RECOMBINATION, GENETIC; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; VARIATION (GENETICS);

ANIMALIA; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; DROSOPHILA SUBOBSCURA; MELANOGASTER;

EID: 0030983866     PISSN: 00166731     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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