Patterns of molecular evolution in avian microsatellites

Molecular Biology and Evolution

Volumn 15, Issue 8, 1998, Pages 997-1008

  Primmer, Craig R ^a,b   Ellegren, Hans ^a  

^a SWEDISH UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES   (Sweden)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

Author keywords

Birds; Microsatellite evolution; Slipped strand mispairing; Stepwise mutation model; Substitution

Indexed keywords

ALLELE; ARTICLE; BASE MISPAIRING; BIRD; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC ANALYSIS; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; NONHUMAN; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PHYLOGENY;

AVES;

EID: 0031903898     PISSN: 07374038     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/oxfordjournals.molbev.a026015     Document Type: Article

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