Within- and between-species DNA sequence variation and the 'footprint' of natural selection

Gene

Volumn 238, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 39-51

  Akashi, Hiroshi ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS   (United States)

Author keywords

Adaptive evolution; Molecular evolution; Nearly neutral theory; Neutral theory; Population genetics

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID; NUCLEOTIDE; PROTEIN;

CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA SEQUENCE; FITNESS; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; NATURAL SELECTION; NONHUMAN; POPULATION GENETICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW;

DROSOPHILA;

EID: 0032869219     PISSN: 03781119     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-1119(99)00294-2     Document Type: Article

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