The mutation rates of di-, tri- and tetranucleotide repeats in Drosophila melanogaster

Molecular Biology and Evolution

Volumn 15, Issue 12, 1998, Pages 1751-1760

  Schug, Malcolm D ^a   Hutter, Carolyn M ^a   Wetterstrand, Kris A ^a   Gaudette, Mara S ^a   Mackay, Trudy F C ^b   Aquadro, Charles F ^a  

^a Department of Population Medicine and Diagnostic Sciences   (United States)

^b NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Drosophila melanogaster; Effective population size; Microsatellite; Mutation rate; Simple sequence length polymorphism; SSR

Indexed keywords

DNA; NUCLEOTIDE;

ALLELE; ARTICLE; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; GENE LOCUS; GENE MUTATION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE REPEAT; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POPULATION GENETICS;

DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; MAMMALIA; MELANOGASTER;

EID: 0031797308     PISSN: 07374038     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/oxfordjournals.molbev.a025901     Document Type: Article

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