The evolutionary analysis of "orphans" from the Drosophila genome identifies rapidly diverging and incorrectly annotated genes

Genetics

Volumn 159, Issue 2, 2001, Pages 589-598

  Schmid, Karl J ^a,b   Aquadro, Charles F ^a  

^a Cornell University ^*  (United States)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR CHEMICAL ECOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GENE PRODUCT;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; ARTICLE; CHROMOSOME 1; CHROMOSOME 2; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; EXON; GENE DELETION; GENE INSERTION; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPEN READING FRAME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS;

ANIMALS; DNA; DROSOPHILA; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; EXPRESSED SEQUENCE TAGS; GENOME; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; POLYMORPHISM, GENETIC; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

EID: 0034754788     PISSN: 00166731     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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