The correlation between synonymous and nonsynonymous substitutions in drosophila: Mutation, selection or relaxed constraints?

Genetics

Volumn 150, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 767-775

  Comeron, Josep M ^a   Kreitman, Martin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA; RNA;

AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; ARTICLE; CODON USAGE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DNA BASE COMPOSITION; DROSOPHILA; DROSOPHILA PSEUDOOBSCURA; DROSOPHILA SUBOBSCURA; NATURAL SELECTION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEIC ACID BASE SUBSTITUTION; PHYLOGENY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RNA TRANSLATION; UNINDEXED SEQUENCE;

ANIMALS; BASE PAIRING; CODON; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DNA; DROSOPHILA; MUTATION; PHYLOGENY; SELECTION (GENETICS); VARIATION (GENETICS);

DROSOPHILA PSEUDOOBSCURA; DROSOPHILA SUBOBSCURA; MAMMALIA;

EID: 0031658304     PISSN: 00166731     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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