Molecular evolution of two paralogous tandemly repeated heterochromatic gene clusters linked to the X and Y chromosomes of drosophila melanogaster

Molecular Biology and Evolution

Volumn 17, Issue 5, 2000, Pages 697-702

  Kogan, Galina L ^a   Epstein, Vitalii N ^a   Aravin, Alexei A ^a   Gvozdev, Vladimir A ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF MOLECULAR GENETICS   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

Concerted evolution; Drosophila melanogaster; Heterochromatin; Tandem repeats; Translational selection; Y chromosome

Indexed keywords

CASEIN KINASE II;

ARTICLE; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; ENZYME SUBUNIT; EUCHROMATIN; GENE CLUSTER; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC SELECTION; HETEROCHROMATIN; MALE FERTILITY; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPEN READING FRAME; PSEUDOGENE; TANDEM REPEAT; X CHROMOSOME; Y CHROMOSOME;

DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER;

EID: 0034075852     PISSN: 07374038     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/oxfordjournals.molbev.a026348     Document Type: Article

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