Evidence for DNA loss as a determinant of genome size

Science

Volumn 287, Issue 5455, 2000, Pages 1060-1062

  Petrov, Dmitri A ^a   Sangster, Todd A ^a   Johnston, J Spencer ^a   Hartl, Daniel L ^a   Shaw, Kerry L ^a  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA;

ARTHROPOD; ARTICLE; DNA CONTENT; DROSOPHILA; GENE DELETION; GENE INSERTION; GENE MUTATION; GENOME; LONG TERMINAL REPEAT; NATURAL SELECTION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEIC ACID BASE SUBSTITUTION; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSEUDOGENE;

ANIMALS; DNA; DROSOPHILA; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENOME; GRYLLIDAE; LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS; MULTIGENE FAMILY; MUTATION; PHYLOGENY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PSEUDOGENES; RETROELEMENTS; SEQUENCE DELETION; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

ARTHROPODA; EUKARYOTA; GRYLLIDAE; INSECTA; LAUPALA;

EID: 0034635568     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.287.5455.1060     Document Type: Article

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