RNA secondary structure and compensatory evolution

Genes and Genetic Systems

Volumn 74, Issue 6, 1999, Pages 271-286

  Chen, Ying ^a   Carlini, David B ^a   Baines, John F ^a   Parsch, John ^a,c   Braverman, John M ^a,d   Tanda, Soichi ^b   Stephan, Wolfgang ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER   (United States)

^b University of Maryland   (United States)

^c HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d LE MOYNE COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MESSENGER RNA; MESSENGER RNA PRECURSOR; RNA;

ARTICLE; CODON; DNA SEQUENCE; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; EPISTASIS; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MOLECULAR INTERACTION; NONHUMAN; RNA BINDING; RNA SPLICING; RNA STRUCTURE;

ALCOHOL DEHYDROGENASE; ANIMALS; CODON; DROSOPHILA; EVOLUTION; GENETICS, POPULATION; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MUTATION; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; RNA; RNA SPLICING;

DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; MELANOGASTER;

EID: 0033497101     PISSN: 13417568     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1266/ggs.74.271     Document Type: Article

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