Genome size as a mutation-selection-drift process

Genes and Genetic Systems

Volumn 74, Issue 5, 1999, Pages 201-207

  Lozovskaya, Elena R ^a   Nurminsky, Dmitry I ^a   Petrov, Dmitri A ^b   Hartl, Daniel L ^a  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONFERENCE PAPER; DNA DETERMINATION; DROSOPHILA; EVOLUTION; GENE DELETION; GENE MUTATION; GENE SEQUENCE; NONHUMAN; RETROPOSON;

ANIMALS; DNA; DROSOPHILA; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENOME; MUTAGENESIS; RETROELEMENTS; SELECTION (GENETICS);

DOA; MAMMALIA;

EID: 0033380891     PISSN: 13417568     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1266/ggs.74.201     Document Type: Conference Paper

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