Natural selection on synonymous sites is correlated with gene length and recombination in Drosophila

Genetics

Volumn 151, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 239-249

  Comeron, Josep M ^a   Kreitman, Martin ^a   Aguadé, Montserrat ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; NATURAL SELECTION; NONHUMAN; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ANIMALS; DROSOPHILA; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; GENES, INSECT; MODELS, GENETIC; RECOMBINATION, GENETIC; SELECTION (GENETICS);

DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; MELANOGASTER;

EID: 0032894285     PISSN: 00166731     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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