A simple method for estimating the intensity of purifying selection in protein-coding genes

Molecular Biology and Evolution

Volumn 16, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 49-53

  Ophir, Ron ^a   Itoh, Takeshi ^b   Graur, Dan ^a   Gojobori, Takashi ^b  

^a TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF GENETICS   (Japan)

Author keywords

Protein coding genes; Pseudogenes; Purifying selection

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; ANALYTIC METHOD; ARTICLE; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC SELECTION; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PROTEIN ISOLATION; PROTEIN PURIFICATION; PSEUDOGENE;

MURIDAE;

EID: 0032931172     PISSN: 07374038     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/oxfordjournals.molbev.a026037     Document Type: Article

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