Pattern of selective constraint in C. elegans and C. briggsae genomes

Genetical Research

Volumn 74, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 23-30

  Shabalina, Svetlana A ^a,b   Kondrashov, Alexey S ^b  

^a INSTITUTE OF MATHEMATICAL PROBLEMS OF BIOLOGY   (Russian Federation)

^b Department of Obstetrics Gynecology   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NUCLEOTIDE;

ARTICLE; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; EXON; GENE LIBRARY; GENETIC STABILITY; GENOME; INTRON; NONHUMAN; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CAENORHABDITIS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; DNA, HELMINTH; GENOME; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

EID: 0032848247     PISSN: 00166723     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0016672399003821     Document Type: Article

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