Substitution rates in Drosophila nuclear genes: Implications for translational selection

Genetics

Volumn 157, Issue 1, 2001, Pages 295-305

  Dunn, Katherine A ^a   Bielawski, Joseph P ^a   Yang, Ziheng ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; ARTICLE; CODON USAGE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DNA SEQUENCE; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; GENE MUTATION; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RNA TRANSLATION; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; UNINDEXED SEQUENCE;

ANIMALS; CELL NUCLEUS; CODON; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DROSOPHILA; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; GENES, INSECT; LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS; MODELS, GENETIC; MUTATION; PROTEIN BIOSYNTHESIS; SELECTION (GENETICS);

ARACHNIDA; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; HEXAPODA; MELANOGASTER;

EID: 0035155844     PISSN: 00166731     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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