High rate of DNA loss in the Drosophila melanogaster and Drosophila virilis species groups

Molecular Biology and Evolution

Volumn 15, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 293-302

  Petrov, Dmitri A ^a,b   Hartl, Daniel L ^a  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Biased spontaneous mutation; C value paradox; Deletions and insertions; Helena; Non LTR retrotransposable elements; Pseudogenes

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; DROSOPHILA VIRILIS; EVOLUTION; NONHUMAN; PSEUDOGENE; SPONTANEOUS MUTATION;

DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; DROSOPHILA VIRILIS; MELANOGASTER;

EID: 0031891484     PISSN: 07374038     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/oxfordjournals.molbev.a025926     Document Type: Article

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