Nucleotide polymorphism at the RpII215 gene Drosophila subobscura: Selection on synonymous mutations

Genetics

Volumn 155, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 1245-1252

  Llopart, Ana ^a,b   Aguadé, Montserrat ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CELL DNA; RNA POLYMERASE II;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CODON; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA BASE COMPOSITION; DNA POLYMORPHISM; DROSOPHILA; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE MUTATION; GENE SEGREGATION; GENETIC DISTANCE; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; MALE; NATURAL SELECTION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS;

ANIMALS; CODON; DNA MUTATIONAL ANALYSIS; DROSOPHILA; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION; INSECT PROTEINS; INVERSION, CHROMOSOME; MALE; MICROSATELLITE REPEATS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTATION; POLYMORPHISM, GENETIC; RECOMBINATION, GENETIC; RNA POLYMERASE II; SELECTION (GENETICS); VARIATION (GENETICS);

ANIMALIA; DROSOPHILA SUBOBSCURA;

EID: 0033927222     PISSN: 00166731     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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