The effect of tandem substitutions on the correlation between synonymous and nonsynonymous rates in rodents

Genetics

Volumn 153, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 1395-1402

  Smith, Nick G C ^a,b   Hurst, Laurence D ^a  

^a University of Bath   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SUSSEX   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA; RNA;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; CORRELATION FUNCTION; DNA BASE COMPOSITION; GENETIC SELECTION; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MUTATION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEIC ACID BASE SUBSTITUTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RNA STRUCTURE; RODENT; TANDEM REPEAT;

ALGORITHMS; ANIMALS; DNA; HUMANS; LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS; MAMMALS; MICE; MODELS, GENETIC; MODELS, STATISTICAL; MUTATION; RATS; RODENTIA;

MAMMALIA; RODENTIA;

EID: 0032714307     PISSN: 00166731     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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