Distribution and abundance of microsatellites in the yeast genome can be explained by a balance between slippage events and point mutations

Molecular Biology and Evolution

Volumn 17, Issue 8, 2000, Pages 1210-1219

  Kruglyak, Semyon ^a   Durrett, Richard ^b   Schug, Malcolm D ^b,c   Aquadro, Charles F ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b Department of Population Medicine and Diagnostic Sciences   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT GREENSBORO   (United States)

Author keywords

Microsatellite; Saccharomyces cerevisiae; Slippage rates

Indexed keywords

MICROSATELLITE DNA;

ARTICLE; DINUCLEOTIDE REPEAT; EVOLUTION; GENOME; NONHUMAN; NUCLEIC ACID BASE SUBSTITUTION; POINT MUTATION; PROBABILITY; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; TRINUCLEOTIDE REPEAT; YEAST;

SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE;

EID: 0033856853     PISSN: 07374038     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/oxfordjournals.molbev.a026404     Document Type: Article

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