Changes in the recombinational environment affect divergence in the yellow gene of Drosophila

Molecular Biology and Evolution

Volumn 18, Issue 6, 2001, Pages 1045-1056

  Munté, Agusti ^a   Aguadé, Montserrat ^a   Segarra, Carmen ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Codon bias; Melanogaster group of Drosophila; Recombination rate; Synonymous divergence; Yellow gene

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; CHROMOSOME ANALYSIS; CODON; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; GENE LOCATION; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; HYPOTHESIS; PREDICTION; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; X CHROMOSOME;

ANANASSAE SUBGROUP; DROSOPHILA; DROSOPHILA ANANASSAE; DROSOPHILA ERECTA; DROSOPHILA GUANCHE; DROSOPHILA MADEIRENSIS; DROSOPHILA MAURITIANA; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; DROSOPHILA PSEUDOOBSCURA; DROSOPHILA SIMULANS; DROSOPHILA SUBOBSCURA; DROSOPHILA YAKUBA; MELANOGASTER; OBSCURA GROUP;

EID: 0034988711     PISSN: 07374038     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/oxfordjournals.molbev.a003876     Document Type: Article

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