Synonymous rates at the RpII215 gene of Drosophila: Variation among species and across the coding region

Genetics

Volumn 152, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 269-280

  Llopart, Ana ^a   Aguadé, Montserrat ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RNA POLYMERASE II;

AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; ARTICLE; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; CODON; DROSOPHILA; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE MUTATION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC CODE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; NATURAL SELECTION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPECIES DIFFERENCE;

ANIMALS; CLONING, MOLECULAR; CODON; DROSOPHILA; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; MODELS, GENETIC; MODELS, STATISTICAL; MUTATION; PHYLOGENY; RNA POLYMERASE II; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

ARACHNIDA; DROSOPHILA GUANCHE; DROSOPHILA MADEIRENSIS; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; DROSOPHILA PSEUDOOBSCURA; DROSOPHILA SUBOBSCURA; HEXAPODA; MELANOGASTER;

EID: 0032935835     PISSN: 00166731     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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