Neutral evolution of the sex-determining gene transformer in Drosophila

Genetics

Volumn 154, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 1711-1720

  McAllister, Bryant F ^a,b   McVean, Gilean A T ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT ARLINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA; GENE PRODUCT;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; DNA SEQUENCE; DROSOPHILA; GENETIC POLYMORPHISM; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; ONCOGENE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEX DETERMINATION;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; DROSOPHILA; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NUCLEAR PROTEINS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, NUCLEIC ACID; SEX DETERMINATION (GENETICS); SPECIES SPECIFICITY; VARIATION (GENETICS);

DROSOPHILA AMERICANA; DROSOPHILA VIRILIS;

EID: 0034075623     PISSN: 00166731     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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