Is the fast/slow allozyme variation at the Adh locus of Drosophila melanogaster an ancient balanced polymorphism? [3]

Molecular Biology and Evolution

Volumn 16, Issue 12, 1999, Pages 1816-1819

  Begun, David J ^a   Betancourt, Andrea J ^a   Langley, Charles H ^b   Stephan, Wolfgang ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Adh; Balanced polymorphism; DNA sequence variation; Drosophila melanogaster; Zimbabwe population

Indexed keywords

ALLOENZYME;

ALLELE; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; GENE FREQUENCY; GENE LOCUS; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC POLYMORPHISM; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HAPLOTYPE; HETEROZYGOSITY; LETTER; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE;

DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER;

EID: 0032731663     PISSN: 07374038     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/oxfordjournals.molbev.a026095     Document Type: Letter

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