Neutrality tests of conservative-radical amino acid changes in nuclear- and mitochondrially-encoded proteins

Gene

Volumn 261, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 115-125

  Rand, David M ^a   Weinreich, Daniel M ^a   Cezairliyan, Brent O ^a  

^a BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Drosophila; McDonald Kreitman test; Mildly deleterious single nucleotide polymorphism; Molecular evolution; mtDNA; Natural selection; Neutral theory; Neutrality test

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID; MITOCHONDRIAL DNA; NUCLEAR PROTEIN;

AMINO ACID COMPOSITION; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; ARABIDOPSIS; ARTICLE; CODON; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA SEQUENCE; DROSOPHILA; GENETIC HETEROGENEITY; GENETIC VARIABILITY; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; NATURAL SELECTION; NEUTRAL GENE THEORY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM;

AMINO ACIDS; ANIMALS; ARABIDOPSIS; BASE COMPOSITION; CODON; CONSERVED SEQUENCE; DNA, MITOCHONDRIAL; DROSOPHILA; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENE FREQUENCY; GENES; MODELS, GENETIC; MUTATION; NUCLEAR PROTEINS; POLYMORPHISM, GENETIC; PROTEINS; SELECTION (GENETICS);

ANIMALIA; ARABIDOPSIS;

EID: 0034736524     PISSN: 03781119     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-1119(00)00483-2     Document Type: Article

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