Synonymous and nonsynonymous substitutions in mammalian genes: Intragenic correlations

Journal of Molecular Evolution

Volumn 46, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 37-44

  Alvarez Valin, Fernando ^a,b   Jabbari, Kamel ^a   Bernardi, Giorgio ^a  

^a INSTITUT JACQUES MONOD   (France)

^b UNIVERSIDAD DE LA REPÚBLICA   (Uruguay)

Author keywords

Intragenic correlations; Mammalian genes; Substitutions

Indexed keywords

CYTOSINE; GUANINE; NUCLEIC ACID;

ARTICLE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; MAMMAL; NONHUMAN; NUCLEIC ACID BASE SUBSTITUTION; SILENT GENE;

ANIMALS; CODON; EVOLUTION; GENES; MAMMALS; MODELS, GENETIC;

MAMMALIA;

EID: 0031963946     PISSN: 00222844     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/PL00006281     Document Type: Article

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