The role of gene conversion in determining sequence variation and divergence in the Est-5 gene family in Drosophila pseudoobscura

Genetics

Volumn 148, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 305-315

  King, Lynn Mertens ^a,b  

^a University of Miami   (United States)

^b NATIONAL HUMAN GENOME RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID; ESTERASE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DROSOPHILA; EVOLUTION; FEMALE; GENE CONVERSION; GENE DUPLICATION; GENE LOCUS; GENETIC POLYMORPHISM; GENETIC VARIABILITY; MULTIGENE FAMILY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN POLYMORPHISM; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY;

ALLELES; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; DROSOPHILA; DROSOPHILA PROTEINS; ESTERASES; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENE CONVERSION; GENES, INSECT; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; POLYMORPHISM, GENETIC; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, NUCLEIC ACID; VARIATION (GENETICS);

EID: 0031931071     PISSN: 00166731     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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