Intra- and interspecific DNA variation and codon bias of the alcohol dehydrogenase (Adh) locus in Arabis and Arabidopsis species

Molecular Biology and Evolution

Volumn 15, Issue 11, 1998, Pages 1420-1429

  Miyashita, Naohiko T ^a,b   Kawabe, Akira ^a   Innan, Hideki ^a,c   Terauchi, Ryohei ^b,d  

^a Graduate School of Agriculture

^b KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^d GOETHE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Adh; Arabidopsis; Arabis; Codon bias; Phylogeny

Indexed keywords

ALCOHOL DEHYDROGENASE; PLANT DNA; ARABIDOPSIS PROTEIN; VEGETABLE PROTEIN;

ARABIDOPSIS; ARTICLE; CODON; EVOLUTION; GENE LOCUS; GENETIC POLYMORPHISM; GENETIC VARIABILITY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; ARABIS; COMPARATIVE STUDY; ENZYMOLOGY; GENETIC MARKER; GENETIC SELECTION; GENETICS; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; PLANT CHROMOSOME; SPECIES DIFFERENCE;

ARABIDOPSIS; ARABIDOPSIS THALIANA; ARABIS; ARABIS GEMMIFERA; EMBRYOPHYTA;

ALCOHOL DEHYDROGENASE; ARABIDOPSIS; ARABIDOPSIS PROTEINS; ARABIS; CHROMOSOMES, PLANT; CODON; DNA, PLANT; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENETIC MARKERS; PHYLOGENY; PLANT PROTEINS; SELECTION (GENETICS); SPECIES SPECIFICITY; VARIATION (GENETICS);

EID: 0031761342     PISSN: 07374038     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/oxfordjournals.molbev.a025870     Document Type: Article

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